# Woman Playing the Guitar [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VOUET, Simon]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 107 x 75 cm ## Commentary This painting is derived from Caravaggio's <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/caravagg/01/091lute.html'\)" HREF="/html/c/caravagg/01/091lute.html">Lute Player.</A> The figures half-open mouth indicates that a more correct title of Vouet's painting would be Singer Playing the Guitar. The presence of a guitar rather than a lute indicates the popularity of the guitar in the early 1620s. ## Related artworks - [Allegorical Portrait of Anna of Austria as Minerva]() - [Allegory of Peace]() - [Allegory of Virtue]() - [Allegory of Wealth]() - [Annunciation]() - [Assembly of the Gods]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Diana]() - [Eight Satyrs Admiring the Anamorphosis of an Elephant]() - [Euterpe, the Muse of Music and Lyric Poetry]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()