Lady Playing Music

Forgery
Han van Meegeren1935–1936
Lady Playing Music, a 1935-36 trial-piece forgery by Han van Meegeren after Vermeer's Woman with a Lute. Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

About this painting

A trial-piece forgery painted by Van Meegeren in 1935–36 closely following Vermeer's Woman with a Lute. Held by the Rijksmuseum and sometimes catalogued as 'Lady playing a lute looking out the window'.
Date
1935–1936
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 × 46 cm

Current location

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands