Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid at least a degree of intimacy between the two. The painting visits many of Vermeer's usual painterly motifs; in particular his obsession with the inside/outside axis of interior spaces, and through his description of the tiled floor as well as the verticals of the dresses, window frame and back wall painting, his interest in geometry and abstract form. Vermeer had experimented with this painterly device earlier in his career, notably in his "View of Delft", "The Lacemaker" and "The Art of Painting". "Lady Writing" was stolen on 27 April 1974, along with a Goya, two Gainsboroughs and three Rubens from
A Youth with a Jug the boy is similar to that of another painting attributed to Leyster in the Bristol Art Gallery. The painter Frans Hals also made a youthful kannekijker in his "Two laughing boys with mug of beer": A Youth with a Jug A Youth with a Jug is an oil painting currently in a private collection. This painting was first documented as being in the collection of Arthur Kay who published his "Treasure Trove of Art" in 1939, including this "Youth with a Jug" as one of a series on the five senses painted by Judith Leyster. Later the five paintings were