Paintings Reproductions Lady Seated at a Virginal by Jan Vermeer (1632-1675, Netherlands) | WahooArt.com

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Lady Seated at a Virginal, also known as Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, is a genre painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670-1672 and now in the National Gallery, London. Both the National Gallery, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York name their separate paintings of women seated at virginals A Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, although they are quite separate works and are each known by alternate names. (The New York museum's painting is also known as A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals.) The picture shows a woman facing left and playing a virginal. In the left foreground is a viola da gamba holding a bow between its strings. A landscape is painted on the inside lid of the virginal, and the painting on the wall is either the original or a copy of The Procuress by Dirck van Baburen (now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston), which belonged to Vermeer's mother-in-law. It is unclear whether or how much the subject of The Procuress is intended to reflect on the meaning of this work, although "It is probable that a more general association between music and love is intended." At the upper left, a tapestry is used to frame the scene, and in the lower right the foot of the back wall is decorated with Delft tiles.





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Lady Seated at a Virginal, also known as Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, is a genre painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670-1672 and now in the National Gallery, London. Both the National Gallery, London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York name their separate paintings of women seated at virginals A Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, although they are quite separate works and are each known by alternate names. (The New York museum's painting is also known as A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals.) The picture shows a woman facing left and playing a virginal. In the left foreground is a viola da gamba holding a bow between its strings. A landscape is painted on the inside lid of the virginal, and the painting on the wall is either the original or a copy of The Procuress by Dirck van Baburen (now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston), which belonged to Vermeer's mother-in-law. It is unclear whether or how much the subject of The Procuress is intended to reflect on the meaning of this work, although "It is probable that a more general association between music and love is intended." At the upper left, a tapestry is used to frame the scene, and in the lower right the foot of the back wall is decorated with Delft tiles.
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