The music lesson
About this painting
- Year
- 2025
- Dimensions
- 80×60 cm
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Cycle
- Vermeer's Windows
Description
A Vermeer music lesson with a partner's shadow, the mirrored gaze of a portrait, a moon on the floor as the scene's light. In a bright interior with a stained-glass window a woman in a red dress stands at a harpsichord, her back to the viewer; above the keyboard hangs a small portrait, while on the wall beside her stretches the slim dark shadow of a figure with a bow; a silver moon rests on the chequered floor.