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Detail from Vermeer's Music Lesson
Masters of the Everyday: Dutch Artists in the Age of Vermeer: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
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    WILLEM VAN MIERIS (LEIDEN 1662-LEIDEN 1747)

    The neglected Lute

    RCIN 405543

    Van Mieris depicts a stock scene of seduction – a lady ready to play on her lute, plied with oysters and wine. In this eighteenth-century genre scene the setting is no longer a recognisable home, but an imaginary and impossibly palatial stage-set. Acquired by George IV in 1814 Cat. 13
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