instance of: painting / location: Metropolitan Museum of Art / genre: allegory

commissioned by: Francesco Maria del Monte (1)

owned by: Francesco Maria del Monte (1) | Louisine Havemeyer (1) | Jules Bache (1) | Michael Friedsam (1)

movement: Baroque (1) | Flemish Primitives (1) | Dutch Golden Age painting (1)

artist: Johannes Vermeer (1) | Caravaggio (1) | Hans Memling (1) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1)

depicts: woman (2) | flower (1) | book (1) | horse (1) | monkey (1) | Cupid (1) | man (1) | allegory (1) | Caravaggio (1) | lute (1) | madrigal (1) | cornett (1) | White people (1) | musician (1) | lutenist (1) | terrestrial globe (1) | cornettist (1)

material used: oil paint (4) | canvas (2) | wood (1)

collection: New York City (1) | Wilhelm von Bode (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (1) | private collection (1) | Heinrich Vieweg (1) | Jules Bache (1) | Ganniba Collection (1)

part of: Former Diptych, split and held in two museums (1)

exhibition history: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (1) | Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800 (1) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | Exhibition of Belgian Medieval Art (1) | The Bache Collection (1) | Hans Memling: Five Centuries of Fact and Fiction (1) | Flemish Primitives (1) | Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych (1) | Flemish Primitives: the Most Beautiful Diptychs (1) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (1)

main subject: love (1) | music (1)

published in: European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | The Unicorn Tapestries (1) | From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)