Lute player at the window
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| Lute player at the window |
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| Jan Vermeer , 1664 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 51.4 x 45.7 cm |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Lute player at the window is a 51.4 centimeter high and 45.7 centimeter wide oil painting by Jan Vermeer . It is one of several pictures in which Vermeer painted young women making music. The lute player at the window is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
Image description
The painting shows a young woman tuning her lute . She wears a yellow and white satin jacket with fur trim . The pearl necklace and the large pearl as ear pendants were only uncovered again in 1944 when they were cleaned. The lute player does not concentrate on what she is doing, but looks to the left out of the window. It is not clear to the viewer whether they are looking at someone or something or looking out dreamily. Books are lying on the table in front of the young woman, and a book is also lying on the floor near the lower right corner of the picture. In the left foreground is a chair with a lion's head that stands out clearly against the light background. There is a blue coat or cloth over the chair. The viola da gamba lying under the table can hardly be seen .
A large map of Europe hangs on the wall in the background . Below that is another chair on the right edge of the picture.
Attribution and dating
The attribution of the lute player at the window as a work of Vermeer's is generally accepted, only Albert Blankert doubts it. As with many of Vermeer's works, dating the picture is difficult because it was not recorded by the artist. Two dates are discussed. On the one hand, the classification around 1665 due to stylistic similarities to the picture Letter Writer in Yellow ; on the other hand, 1662/1663 is also discussed, since the lute player at the window has similarities in composition with the picture Young Woman with a Water Jug at the Window .
Provenance
The picture Lute Player at the Window may have been auctioned off at the Philippus van der Schley and Daniel du Pré auction on December 22, 1817 in Amsterdam . It was subsequently acquired by Collis S. Huntington and bequeathed it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with its entire collection .
literature
- Norbert Schneider: Vermeer all paintings . Taschen, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-8228-6377-7 .
- Arthur K. Wheelock: Vermeer . 2nd Edition. DuMont Literature and Art Publishing, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7339-0 , ( DuMont's library of great painters ).
- Jeroen Giltaij, Peter Hecht: The magic of the everyday. Dutch painting from Adriaen Brouwer to Johannes Vermeer . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1522-3 , (exhibition catalog).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeroen Giltaij: The magic of the everyday. Dutch painting from Adriaen Brouwer to Johannes Vermeer . Hatje cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005. Page 246.
- ↑ Jeroen Giltaij: The magic of the everyday. Dutch painting from Adriaen Brouwer to Johannes Vermeer . Hatje cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005. Page 247.