# Interior with a Woman at the Virginals [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WITTE, Emanuel de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary Interior with a Woman at the Virginals c. 1665 Oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Restraint is a quality that permeates de Witte's genre pictures. In his richly furnished domestic Interior with a Woman at the Virginals the man in the curtained bed with his clothing and his sword draped over a nearby chair are not the first things noticed when we confront its palpable space, strong sunlight, and sonorous colour harmonies. If Mondrian saw the painting it is not hard to imagine that he would have nodded his head in approval at the banded pattern made by the light on the interior's marble floor. His approval, however, would have been anachronistic if he did not correlate it with the artist's effort to create a plausible illusion of space on the two-dimensional surface of the canvas. Like other seventeenth-century Dutch artists, de Witte saw an inextricable link between a picture's formal qualities and its illusionism. ## Related artworks - [A Sermon in the Oude Kerk, Delft]() - [Church Interior]() - [Interior of a Baroque Church]() - [Interior of a Church]() - [Interior of a Church]() - [Interior of a Church]() - [Interior of a Church]() - [Interior of a Protestant Gothic Church \(detail\)]() - [Interior of a Protestant Gothic Church]() - [Interior of a Protestant Gothic Church]() - [Interior of a Protestant Gothic Church]() - [Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()