Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Completed in approximately 1657–59, the well-preserved painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. For many years, the attribution of the painting—which features a young Dutch woman reading a letter before an open window—was lost, with first Rembrandt and then Pieter de Hooch being credited for the work before it was properly identified in 1880. After World War II, the painting was briefly in possession of the Soviet Union. The painting depicts
The Girl of the Golden West (play) US for several years. The play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1910 opera "La fanciulla del West" by Giacomo Puccini. It was also made into four films, all titled "The Girl of the Golden West", in 1915, 1923, 1930 and 1938. In 1911, Belasco wrote a novel based on the play. (1911 novel based on the play) The Girl of the Golden West (play) The Girl of the Golden West is a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco, set in the California Gold Rush. The four-act melodrama opened at the old Belasco Theatre