The Music Lesson

Gerard ter Borch specialized in small-scale portraits and scenes of everyday life. He often painted images like this one, featuring military officers and elegant young women conversing, making music, or exchanging letters. Here, a lady plays an elaborate stringed instrument, the double-headed lute, while her companion marks the tempo for her. He is presumably her music instructor, but the similarity in their ages and the presence of the bed in the background make the precise relationship of the figures tantalizingly ambiguous.

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Im selben Saal · Gallery 212, Art Institute of Chicago

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Vrouw in boerenkostuum

Helena van der Schalcke

Galante Konversation

Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)

Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614–1676)

Het sluiten van de Vrede van Munster

A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid

La Leçon de lecture

The Family Concert, 1666

Calvary, c. 1765–1800

Bouquet of Flowers and Fruit with Blue Ribbon, c. 1680

The Music Lesson, 1671

Girl Standing before a Mirror, 1668

Resurrection of Christ, c. 1665

A Vanitas Still Life with a Flag, Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Books, Writing Paraphernalia, Globes and Hourglass, 1662

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658

Die Musiker, 1597

Two Young Girls at the Piano, 1892

Spanischer Sänger, 1860

Guitar, 1926

Debbie Harry, c. 1980

The Old Guitarist, late 1903–early 1904

Mezzetin, ca. 1718–20

Lautenspielerin am Fenster, ca. 1662–63