Woman with a Lute

This canvas was probably painted about 1662–63, a little later than "Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" The arrangement of the table and the silhouetted chair in the foreground, the use of a curtain to cast shadows in the corner by the window, and the greater role of shadows throughout the composition would appear to indicate that the picture was made within a year or so of the "Woman with a Pearl Necklace" (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) and the "Woman with a Balance" (National Gallery of Art, Washington), both of which may be dated about 1663–64.