ID: 700007387 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007387	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Music Lesson (oil painting (visual work); Gerard ter Borch (Dutch painter, 1617 - 1681) ; about 1668; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 97.PA.47)

Note: An elegantly dressed woman plays the lute in her bedroom, leaning forward as she concentrates on the sheet of music.

Titles:

The Music Lesson (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1668

Creator Display:

Gerard ter Borch (Dutch painter, 1617 - 1681) [preferred,JPGM]

painter Terborch, Gerard (Dutch painter, 1617-1681) [500017511]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 97.PA.47

Display Materials: Oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Unframed: 67.7 x 55.6 cm (26 5/8 x 21 7/8 in.); Framed [outer dim]: 80.3 x 67.9 x 3.8 cm (31 5/8 x 26 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

Dutch (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Baroque [300021147] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	woman (female human) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	dog (species) [300250130]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus)) (AAT)

	teacher [300025529]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the social sciences and related occupations>, <people in social science-related occupations>, educators) (AAT)

	lute (chordophone) [300042101]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones, lutelike chordophones, lutelike chordophones: plucked, <lutelike chordophones with long neck: plucked>) (AAT)

	music (performing arts genre) [300054146]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for performing arts>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Music Lesson	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)