| Woman Playing a Guitar | |
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| Artist | Simon Vouet |
| Year | c. 1618 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 106.5 cm× 75.8 cm(41.9 in× 29.8 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Accession | 2017.242 |
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.
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]