# Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TERBORCH, Gerard]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on wood, 37 x 32 cm ## Commentary Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier c. 1658 Oil on wood, 37 x 32 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By the late 1650s, Terborch had been arranging three-quarter-length figures around tables, in compositions of similar format, for about ten years. The present painting belongs to this group. The figure of the theorbo player recalls the young woman in blue who plays alone at a table in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/t/terborch/1/suitor.html'\)" href="/html/t/terborch/1/suitor.html">The Suitor's Visit</a> of about 1658. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 14 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/handel\_theorbo.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>George Frideric Handel: Concerto for harp, lute and theorbo in B flat major</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Concert]() - [A Lady Reading a Letter]() - [A Woman Spinning]() - [A Young Woman Playing a Theorbo to Two Men]() - [An Officer Writing a Letter]() - [Boy Ridding his Dog of Fleas]() - [Burgomaster Jan van Duren]() - [Card-Players]() - [Curiosity]() - [Helena van der Schalcke as a Child]() - [Lady at her Toilette]() - [Lady Reading a Letter \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()