The Concert
Johan Vermeer
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- The Concert
Artist Johannes Vermeer
Year circa 1664
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 72.5 cm × 64.7 cm (28.5 in × 25.5 in)
Location Whereabouts unknown since the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft in 1990
The Concert (c. 1664) is a painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. The 72.5-by-64.7-centimetre (28.5 by 25.5 in) picture depicts a man and two women playing music. It belongs to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, but was stolen in 1990 and remains missing.[1] It is thought to be the most valuable unrecovered stolen painting ever, with a value estimated at over $200,000,000.
The picture shows three musicians: a young woman sitting at a Harpsichord, a man playing the Lute, and a woman who is singing. The Harpsichord's upturned lid is decorated with an Arcadian landscape; its bright coloring stands in contrast to the two paintings hanging on the wall to the right and left. A viola da gamba can be seen lying on the floor.
Of the two paintings in the background, the one on the right is The Procuress by Dirck Van Baburen, a work which also appears in Vermeer's Lady Seated at a Virginal, probably painted around six years after The Concert. The painting on the left is a wild pastoral landscape. The musical theme in Dutch painting in Vermeer's time often connoted love and seduction,[3] a motif reinforced by the presence of Baburen's sexually exuberant picture.
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- The Guitar Player
- The Art of Painting (The Allegory of Painting or Painter in his Studio)
- The Concert
- Diana and her Nymphs
- Young Girl with a Flute
- The Milkmaid (The Kitchen Maid)
- Saint Praxidis
- The Lacemaker
- View of Delft
- Allegory of the Catholic Faith
- A Lady Drinking and a Gentleman
- Woman with a Lute
- Girl with the Red Hat
- Mistress and Maid
- Woman with a Pearl Necklace
- Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
- The Geographer
- The Love Letter
- The Girl with the Wine Glass (A Lady and Two Gentlemen)
- Officer And Laughing Girl
- Lady Seated at a Virginal
- Girl with a Pearl Earring
- The Procuress
- Study of a Young Woman
- Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
- Girl Interrupted at Her Music
- Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
- Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid
- Woman Reading a Letter
- Woman Holding a Balance
- The Glass Of Wine
- A Lady Writing a Letter
- A Maid Asleep
- View of Houses in Delft known as The Little Street
- A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman
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