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A woman wearing a pale yellow silk dress sits playing a lute in front of a table while a man, wearing a black suit and hat, stands behind her in this vertical painting. Both have light skin. The woman sits facing our right in profile as she looks at pages of sheet music propped on a wooden tabletop stand on the table in front of her. Her light brown hair is pulled back in a braid looped into a bun, and a few curly tendrils fall alongside her ears. She has a pointed nose, full cheeks, and a receding chin beneath closed lips. Light gleams off her pale, golden yellow jacket and skirt. The…

The Music Lesson

Anonymous Artist

c. 1670 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Timken Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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