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Woman Playing a Guitar

Simon Vouet

Woman Playing a Guitar

Simon Vouet
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Period

Baroque

Theme

Portrait

Medium

Oil on canvas

Current Location

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Story

Woman Playing a Guitar by Simon Vouet.

Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Mary Trumbull Adams and Victor Wilbour Memorial Funds; Friends of European Paintings and Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Inc.

Gifts; Gift of Julia A.

“A silence so complete it becomes its own witness.”

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A restrained palette and sculptural lighting create a solemn geometry. The wooden crate and letter anchor the narrative with journalistic precision.