Beauty Reading a Letter
c. 1751–72
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 160.9 × 24.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-1305012
A woman sits reading a letter. She has taken her right arm out of her sleeve and presses her hand against her pulse as if to still her excitement at the contents of the missive. Another woman’s silhouette is visible behind her through sliding paper doors. She spies on the first woman by peering through a tear in the paper.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Ellen and Bruce Mavec, 2026.45
Registry history
- c. 1751–72 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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