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The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting)

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199: 268: 280: 187: 98: 46: 217: 374: 175: 29: 251:. The Van der Helst scholar Judith van Gent dismisses both this painting and the Granida as a portrait of the artist's wife Anna du Pire based on the age of the painter and his wife at the time. She notes Liedtke's comparison to the other Dutch lute players in the MET collection, namely Vermeer's 231:
This work is the only surviving painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art that was acquired before 1906 and after the initial purchase of 1871, and though it is officially recorded as entering the collection in 1873, Liedtke mentions that it was grouped as one of two paintings that came into the
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Liedtke wonders if it could possibly a portrait of the artist's wife, as has sometimes been claimed for the female pendant of a shepherd by Van der Helst that has often been claimed to be a self-portrait:
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The Vermeer was donated to the MET's collection in 1900, and the Ter Borch in 1914, both of which had been recently imported to the US, probably also based on the popularity at the time of this painting.
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and presumably therefore via his dealer Leon Gauchez. The other painting (accession number 73.1) was a double portrait by Carel de Moor, but it was deaccessioned in 1988.
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collection in 1872 after the initial 1871 purchase, but also via the same vice-president of the Board of Trustees
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J.J. de Gelder, dissertation on Bartholomeus van der Helst with a monograph of his work, 1921, cat. nr. 17
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Bartholomeus van der Helst (ca. 1613–1670). Een studie naar zijn leven en werk'
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The art historian J.J. de Gelder mentioned the lute shown in the painting is a
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The woman is looking at the viewer and according to art historian
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138.4 cm (54.5 in) × 111.1 cm (43.7 in)
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This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a
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Bartholomeus van der Helst
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oil paint
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Met object ID: 436642
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oil
Dutch
Bartholomeus van der Helst
Dutch Golden Age painting
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walter Liedtke
Gerrit van Honthorst
Ferdinand Bol
Honthorst, 1624
Honthorst, 1624
Bol, 1654
Unknown woman as Granida, 1660
William T. Blodgett
theorbe
viola de gamba
Jan Baptist Weenix
Woman with a Lute
Ter Borch, 1658
Vermeer, 1662
List of paintings by Bartholomeus van der Helst

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