TERBORCH, Gerard
(b. 1617, Zwolle, d. 1681, Deventer)

Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier (detail)

c. 1658
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The figure of the theorbo player recalls the young woman in blue who plays alone at a table in The Suitor's Visit of about 1658.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 14 minutes):
George Frideric Handel: Concerto for harp, lute and theorbo in B flat major