Young Woman with a Lute
The story
A young woman tunes a lute by an open window, her face caught in clear daylight. Painted around 1662-63 — Vermeer's most contained scene, the woman and instrument in perfect quiet.
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Year
- 1662
- Period
- Baroque
- Where it lives
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
