The Lute Player
Artist
Gerard Seghers
Flemish, 1591–1651
Datecirca 1620s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions46 3/4 x 42 1/4 in. (118.7 x 107.3 cm)
Frame: 58 1/4 x 54 1/2 in. (148 x 138.4 cm)
Frame: 58 1/4 x 54 1/2 in. (148 x 138.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Virginia Smith Kunstkamer Fund
Object number2016.29
On View
On viewProvenanceCreated Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1620s. Gustave Mailand (1810– probably 1880); [his sale, Hȏtel Drouot, Paris, May 2–3, 1881, no. 43, as La jeune musicienne, effet de lumière (the young musician, effect of light) by Domenico Feti]. Private collection, Paris; [Christie’s, Paris, September 14, 2016, no. 20, as by Seghers]; sold to NCMA, 2016.
Published References“Catalogue de tableaux anciens…composant la collection de feu M. Mailand” (auction catalogue) (Paris: Hôtel Drouot, May 2-3, 1881) lot 43, as La jeune musicienne, effet de lumière (the young musician, effect of light) by Domenico Feti.
Jacques Foucart, “Quelques oeuvres de Gérard Seghers,” in Anne-Marie Logan, ed., Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday (The Netherlands: Davaco, 1983), 91, illus. (b-w) fig. 3.
Benedict Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe. 3 vols., rev. ed by Luisa Vertova, vol. 1 (Umberto Allemandi, 1990), 175 (as Luteplaying Lady by Candlelight).
Dorothea Bieneck, Gerard Seghers (Lingen, 1992) 134–35, cat. A3, illus.
Jacques Foucart, “Quelques oeuvres de Gérard Seghers,” Essays in Northern European Art Presented to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann on his Sixtieth Birthday (Doornspijk, 1993), 89–93, and fig. 3.
“Tableaux 1400-1900” (auction catalogue) (Paris: Christie’s, September 14, 2016), lot 20, as by Seghers.
Frederica Van Dam et al., Theodoor Rombouts: Virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism (exhibition catalogue) (Ghent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2023), 181, illus. (color) (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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