Woman Reading a Letter is an oil painting by Dutch artist Gabriël Metsu, created c. 1665–1667, shortly before his death.

[2] The red and blue embroidery pillow on her lap and the sewing basket next to her show that she put her needlework aside to read the letter.

Beside her, a maid in dark clothing is drawing aside a curtain in front of a painting of a naval scene in an ebony frame.

Approximately between 1744 and 1750, for 500 guilders, they came into the possession of Gerrit Braamcamp, a collector who owned no fewer than ten works by Metsu; his heirs benefited from the artist's popularity.

They would descend to Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, who sold them in 1898 as part of a collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings that was purchased by the art dealers A. Wertheimer and P. & D. Colnaghi.