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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.

Woman With a Lute
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

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 oil on canvas work is 20¼ inches high and 18 inches wide (51.4 × 45.7 cm).[1] The painting's canvas was almost certainly cut from the same bolt as that used for Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid.[2]

The work likely was painted shortly after Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, and it shares with that painting its framing of the figure within rectangular motifs. But the painting has more muted tones, reflecting a shift in that direction by Vermeer in the mid- to late 1660s. At this time, Vermeer began using shadows and soft contours to further evoke an atmosphere of intimacy. "The impression of spatial recession and atmosphere is somewhat diminished by darkening with age of the objects in the foreground and by abrasion of the paint surface, mostly in the same area," according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art web page.[1]

The painting was given to the museum in 1900 by a bequest of railroad industrialist Collis P. Huntington.[1]

See also

• List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer

References

Further reading

• Liedtke, Walter A. (2001). Vermeer and the Delft School. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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)

На других языках

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[de] Lautenspielerin am Fenster

Lautenspielerin am Fenster ist ein 51,4 Zentimeter hohes und 45,7 Zentimeter breites Ölgemälde von Jan Vermeer. Es ist eines von mehreren Bildern, auf denen Vermeer junge Frauen beim Musizieren malte. Die Lautenspielerin am Fenster ist Bestandteil der Sammlung des Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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- [en] Woman with a Lute

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[es] Mujer con laúd

Mujer con laúd, (en neerlandés De luitspeelster) también conocida como Mujer con un laúd cerca de una ventana, es una pintura creada por el pintor neerlandés Johannes Vermeer en 1664 y que se encuentra en el Museo Metropolitano de Arte en Nueva York.

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[fr] La Femme au luth

La Femme au luth est un tableau de Johannes Vermeer (huile sur toile, 51,4 × 45,7 cm) peint vers 1662-1663, et exposé au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York.

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[it] Suonatrice di liuto

La Suonatrice di liuto è un dipinto a olio su tela (51,4x45,7 cm) di Jan Vermeer, databile al 1664 circa e conservato nel Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York. Parzialmente leggibile è la firma "Meer" sulla parete, al di sotto della tovaglia.

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[ru] Женщина с лютней

«Женщина с лютней», или «Женщина с лютней у окна» — картина Яна Вермеера, созданная в 1662—1663 годах. В настоящее время картина находится в собрании Метрополитен-музея в Нью-Йорке, куда была передана в дар в 1925 году по завещанию американского промышленного деятеля Коллиса Поттера Хантингтона спустя 25 лет после его смерти[1].

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