Woman Playing a Guitar (Vouet)

Woman Playing a Guitar is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Simon Vouet, executed c. 1618. The painting is in tenebrist style and depicts a finely dresses woman distractedly playing a guitar. The work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Woman Playing a Guitar
ArtistSimon Vouet
Yearc. 1618
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions106.5 cm × 75.8 cm (41.9 in × 29.8 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession2017.242

Description

Woman Playing a Guitar depicts a satin-garbed women playing a guitar, a subject that was common in 17th-century European art.[1] The woman is seen gazing at into space, and is described by the Met as being "lost in reverie". Sources have also commented on the subject's sumptuous dress.[2][1]

The work was painted by Simon Vouet while he was living in Rome. It was painted for a private collector, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art speculates that the work may have once been in the collection of Palazzo Patrizi.[1]

References
  1. "Woman Playing a Guitar". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  2. Stephan Wolohojian in "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2016–2018." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 76 (Fall 2018), p. 33, ill. (color)
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