The painter's studio

Le Nain, Mathieu (1607-1677) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
17th century
Height:
73.0 cm  (28 3/4 in.)
Width:
89.9 cm  (35 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Vassar College)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1946.6]

Description

A woman plays a guitar while posing as the muse of the painter. The body of a lute can be seen in the lower left corner on the ground.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]
Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Dickerson, C. D. and Esther Bell. The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of seventeenth-century France (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016) 204-206, cat. no. 26. ISBN 9780300218886.

RIdIM record id

5137