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…
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The Music Lesson

painter Anonymous Artist

Studio of related artist Gerard ter Borch the Younger (Dutch, 1617 - 1681)

c. 1670

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 69 x 55.1 cm (27 3/16 x 21 11/16 in.) ; framed: 88 x 74.9 cm (34 5/8 x 29 1/2 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Timken Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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