MIERIS, Willem van (b. 1662, Leiden, d. 1747, Leiden) |
The Lute Player1711Oil on wood, 50 x 41 cm Wallace Collection, London | ||
This genre work was executed in an antique-looking manner. It constitutes a classicistic reworking of highly conventional imagery within the genre painting repertoire. A curtain is pulled back to reveal a social gathering in which a splendidly attired female tunes her lute as a young suitor offers her a glass of wine.
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