# The Lute Player

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MIERIS, Willem van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on wood, 50 x 41 cm

## Commentary

This genre work was executed in an antique-looking manner. It constitutes a classicistic reworking of highly conventional imagery within the genre painting repertoire. A curtain is pulled back to reveal a social gathering in which a splendidly attired female tunes her lute as a young suitor offers her a glass of wine. &lt;P&gt; &lt;TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR=&#34;\#99CCCC&#34;&gt; &lt;TR VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG SRC=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 2 minutes\):&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A HREF=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/schubert/schubert\_d905\_laute.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;B&gt;Franz Schubert: An die Laute \(To the Lute\) D 905&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;

## Related artworks

- [A Seated Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/a-seated-man-r49f2dd784e816a>)
- [An Old Man Reading](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/an-old-man-reading-r61cecd2441403a>)
- [Diana Resting in a Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/diana-resting-in-a-landscape-ra34ff5884a019a>)
- [Expulsion of Hagar](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/expulsion-of-hagar-ra5a91e2822b992>)
- [Interior with a Mother Attending her Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/interior-with-a-mother-attending-her-children-re9459742dfda09>)
- [Man with Pipe](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/man-with-pipe-r611eb92c7ae89f>)
- [Militiaman with Empty Glass](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/militiaman-with-empty-glass-rac342934e69c95>)
- [Penitent Mary Magdalene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/penitent-mary-magdalene-r8b92e62917ce7d>)
- [The Escaped Bird](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/the-escaped-bird-ra05e6bbe294a8f>)
- [The Greengrocer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/the-greengrocer-rb297d3dd9060e1>)
- [The Poulterer&#39;s Shop \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/the-poulterers-shop-detail-r8e2b787f34523f>)
- [The Poulterer&#39;s Shop](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-willem-van-rc7d938eff5c8da/the-poulterers-shop-r5d2a7561c0f692>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)