Vermeer’s woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
— John Bayley, literary critic
Size: 122 x 92 cm
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The young man has caught a silver trout but it has become a glimmering girl who call his name and runs away into the morning air. All his life he wanders through hollow lands and hilly lands hoping to hear her call his name again.