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The Letter

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) · 1701–1785

Maximum print size

26.2 × 32.3 cm · 10.3 × 12.7 in

at 300 DPI from the 3,085 × 3,795 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening: 26.2 × 32.3 cm · 10.3 × 12.7 in
Mat border, sides: 7.1 cm · 2.8 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 9.4 cm · 3.7 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1746
Medium: Oil on canvas
Type: Paintings
Size: 61.0 × 49.5 cm · 24.0 × 19.5 in
Orientation: portrait
Subjects: Girls, Interiors, Men, Reading, Sleeping, Women
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗

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