BEZIEHUNG
im Künstler
im Museum
Junge Frau sitzend an einem Virginal
um 1670–1672
London, National Gallery, Saal 27 (Inventar-Nr. NG2568)
A Young Woman seated at a Virginal
A tapestry is drawn aside, revealing a musician whose direct gaze invites us to pick up the viola da gamba and join her in an intimate duet. A reproduction of a painting by Dirck van Baburen of a prostitute playing a lute (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) hangs on the back wall, a reminder of the traditional associations between love and music.
