Johannes Vermeer
A Woman at the Virginal with a Man (The Music Lesson)
c. 1662-6474 x 64.5 cm.
oil on canvas
Signed far right centre on picture frame: IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
Royal Collection, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 28
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 15
Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 121
Madlyn Millner Kahr, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, New York, NY, 1993, fig. 209
Walter Liedtke with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger, Vermeer and the Delft School, New Haven and London, 2001, fig. 168
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Vermeer's Impact on His Contemporaries in Oud Holland, 123, 2010 pp. 51-64, fig. 2
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 29
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 83
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the masters of genre painting, Dublin, Washington, Paris, New Haven and London, 2017, fig. 68
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 117, fig. 19
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 70
Exhibitions
2015 Masters of Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer, Nr. 27
2013 Vermeer and Music. The Art of Love and Leisure, Nr. 21
2011 Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence, Nr. 26
1995 Johannes Vermeer, Nr. 8
Other works by Johannes Vermeer
Allegory of the faith
c. 1670-72
c. 1670-72
The Kitchen Maid
c. 1658/60
c. 1658/60
View of Delft
c. 1661-63
c. 1661-63
The Procuress
1656
1656
Young Woman with a Wine Glass
c. 1659-60
c. 1659-60