VOUET, Simon
(b. 1590, Paris, d. 1649, Paris)

Woman Playing the Guitar

1621-22
Oil on canvas, 107 x 75 cm
Private collection

This painting is derived from Caravaggio's Lute Player. The figures half-open mouth indicates that a more correct title of Vouet's painting would be Singer Playing the Guitar. The presence of a guitar rather than a lute indicates the popularity of the guitar in the early 1620s.