Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Johannes Vermeer, 1664
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
Public domain
The blue in her jacket is ultramarine — ground lapis lazuli that reportedly cost more than gold at the time. Not the obvious choice for a plain house dress, if that's what this even is.
Erisava: This is just a woman reading a letter, and somehow that's enough.
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