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WILLEM VAN MIERIS (LEIDEN 1662-LEIDEN 1747)
The Neglected Lute
RCIN 405543
Van Mieris depicts a stock scene of seduction – a lady ready to play on her lute, plied with oysters and wine. In this eighteenth-century genre scene the setting is no longer a recognisable home, but an imaginary and impossibly palatial stage-set.
Acquired by George IV in 1814
Cat. 13
