Woman with a Lute
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Artist | Johannes Vermeer |
Year | c. 1662-1663 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 51.4 cm × 45.7 cm (20.2 in × 18.0 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Woman with a Lute, also known as Woman with a Lute Near a Window, is a painting created about 1662–1663 by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The painting depicts a young woman wearing an ermine-trimmed jacket and enormous pearl earrings as she eagerly looks out a window, presumably expecting a male visitor. "A musical courtship is suggested by the viola da gamba on the floor in the foreground and by the flow of songbooks across the tabletop and onto the floor," according to a web page about the work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art website. The tuning of a lute was recognized by contemporary viewers as a symbol of the virtue of temperance. The
The work likely was painted shortly after
The painting was given to the museum in 1900 by a bequest of railroad industrialist
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid/Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675)/Woman with a Lute, about 1662–63". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
- ^ Walter Liedtke; C. Richard Johnson Jr.; Don H. Johnson. "Canvas matches in Vermeer: a case study in the computer analysis of canvas supports" (PDF). Retrieved 5 May 2013.
Further reading
- ISBN 978-0-87099-973-4.
External links
- Web page about the painting – Metropolitan Museum of Art website
- Exhibition web page Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Woman with a Lute (cat. no. 8)