Music in 17th-Century Dutch Painting
The great 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer created fewer than forty paintings during his lifetime, and Young Woman Seated at a Virginal from 1670–72 is one of his last. On loan from the private Leiden Collection, it is typical of the acclaimed artist’s style in its depiction of a solitary woman seated at the keyboard instrument with light illuminating the scene from a window not seen on the canvas. This masterpiece is the inspiration for the DMA exhibition Vermeer Suite: Music in 17th-Century Dutch Painting. Read more.
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A Boy Playing the Flute (Date Unknown), Attributed to Dirck van Santvoort. The Leiden Collection, New York
Young Woman Seated at a Virginal (c.1670-1672), Johannes Vermeer. The Leiden Collection, New York
A Musical Company (c.1642-1644), Gerard ter Borch. The Leiden Collection, New York
A Lady Playing a Lute in an Interior (1675), Eglon van der Neer. The Leiden Collection, New York
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