A Lady Writing

A Lady Writing is a 1665 painting by Johannes Vermeer.  He is particularly renowned for making masterful use of light in his work. Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women.  He died poor and not very well known, and only 35 known works are attributed to him.