# The Letter

- By: Gari Melchers (American, 1860 - 1932)
- Date: 1882
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 94.62 × 66.99 cm (37 1/4 × 26 3/8 in.) ; framed: 124.46 × 97.79 × 8.89 cm (49 × 38 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection, 1937)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.178305.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/4d5c7af2-083e-4a0b-b7bb-4c77ee0a7b2b/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)