The lute player

Mieris, Willem van (1662-1747)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1711
Height:
50.0 cm  (19 11/16 in.)
Width:
40.5 cm  (15 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel
Place of creation:
Leiden

    Item location

  • Wallace Collection (London)
    [Museum inv. no.: P155]

Description

A woman sits with a lute on her lap and her head raised to look at a man standing behind her. Another couple are standing at the rear of the painting and a boy brings a flagon and glass on a tray. A violin lays on the table.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (double-neck with theorboed bass extension)
Violin [3573]
Bow [2207]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Franits, Wayne E. Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting, its stylistic and thematic evolution (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004) 228–229. ISBN 0300102372.

RIdIM record id

3007

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