National Gallery – Vermeer Lady Standing At A Virginal – London – Audio Guide – MyWoWo Travel App

I’d like to tell you about Lady Standing at a Virginal, a work by one of the greatest Dutch painters of the 17th century, Jan Vermeer. His paintings were created slowly with meticulous care and are very rare: there are only thirty-five worldwide. Jan Vermeer was born in Delft in South Holland, and is famous for his domestic interior scenes which often depict young women carrying out tasks serenely, captured during private and solitary moments. The canvas depicts a girl standing near a keyboard instrument th