Woman with a lute

Vermeer, Johannes (1632-1675)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1662-1663
Height:
51.4 cm  (20 1/4 in.)
Width:
45.7 cm  (18 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 25.110.24]On display in Gallery 616.

Description

Woman tuning a lute (two pegs visible, no strings depicted). She is wearing an ermine-trimmed jacket and a large pearl earring, looking out the window. There is a viola da gamba on the floor and songbooks on the table.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Viola da gamba [3604]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

477