Woman Playing a Guitar
Simon Vouet · French
Date: ca. 1618
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 42 × 29 7/8 in. (106.5 × 75.8 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Themes: Guitars, Musicians, Portraits, Women
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. Berwind, by exchange; Charles and Jessie Price, Otto Naumann, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr., and Sally and Howard Lepow Gifts; Charles B. Curtis Fund; and Theodocia and Joseph Arkus Gift, 2017
Date range
1613 – 1623
Largest dimension
75.8 cm
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