1670
oil
canvas
From the collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dominant colour
A Lady Playing the Guitar is a 1670 oil by Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch Golden Age work, held at Philadelphia Museum of Art.
A Lady Playing the Guitar is an oil painting dated 1670. It is signed as by Johannes Vermeer, though the work is known to be a copy after a 1672 original. The piece shows the quiet domestic scene that Dutch artists loved. The painting was made by an unknown copyist. It belongs to the Dutch Golden Age style, a period of detailed, calm interiors. It now lives in a major U.S. collection. You can see more of this work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
A Lady Playing the Guitar (after 1670s) is an oil on canvas painting by an unknown copyist after a c. 1672 work by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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This painting by a follower of Vermeer was documented as authentic by Hofstede de Groot in 1908: 26. A LADY PLAYING THE GUITAR. B. 28. H. 31. A young lady with fresh red cheeks, wearing a white silk dress and a yellow jacket trimmed with ermine, sits on the left facing the spectator. Her figure is seen at three-quarter length. She looks with a smile at something above her to the left. Behind her is a table with a blue cloth, on which are several books. On the wall hangs a landscape. The scene is lighted from a window with a dark blue curtain on the right. The colours are delicately…
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Johannes Vermeer ( vər-MEER, vər-MAIR, Dutch: ; see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.
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