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Lady Standing at a Virginal

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Lady Standing at a Virginal is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, made around 1670 to 1672 and measuring 51.7 by 45.2 centimeters. It depicts a richly dressed woman playing a virginal in a domestic interior with a tiled floor, paintings on the wall and Delftware tiles, and appears to form a pair with Vermeer's similarly sized Lady Seated at a Virginal. Technical study has found that its canvas was cut from the same bolt of fabric as its companion painting and shares an identical ground preparation with that work and with a third Vermeer now in New York. The painting is held by the National Gallery in London and appears, reproduced, within David Hockney's 1977 painting Looking at Pictures on a Screen. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Genre
Painting 1
Year Created
1670 1
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Source Lady Standing at a Virginal (Wikipedia)

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Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Lady Standing at a Virginal (Wikipedia)
  • Genre reference
    Lady Standing at a Virginal is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, made around 1670 to 1672 and measuring 51.
  • infobox medium field: Oil on canvas
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Lady Standing at a Virginal is a genre painting created by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670-1672, now in the National Gallery, London.
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