Woman Playing a Guitar ca. 1618 Simon Vouet This alluring depiction of a woman playing a guitar was painted during Vouets years in Rome and reveals his interest in the work of Caravaggio with its dramatic lighting and psychological engagement with the beholder. Women playing guitars have a long history in European painting. Seventeenth-century French engravings of modes and manners often show them, as here, lost in reverie. One, dated 1630, has the caption "Love Conquers All but Music Does Not Conquer Love." In 1627 Simon Vouet, already famous, returned to Paris to become painter to the king and the dominant force in French painting.. Woman Playing a Guitar. Simon Vouet (French, Paris 1590-1649 Paris). ca. 1618. Oil on canvas. Paintings
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