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Detail from Vermeer's Music Lesson
At Home in Holland: Mauritshuis [The Hague]
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GABRIEL METSU (LEIDEN 1629-AMSTERDAM 1667)

The Cello Player

RCIN 405534

The love-sick youth is a favourite stock character in Dutch art. In this case there are two of them, dressed in the latest fashion: one tuning his suggestively-positioned cello, while gazing longingly at his lady; the other sighing hopelessly on the balcony above. Acquired by George IV in 1814 Cat. 11
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