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Young Woman with a Lute, Johannes Vermeer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Young Woman with a LuteJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) · ca. 1662–63The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s record

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Young Woman with a Lute

Johannes Vermeer, 1632–1675, painted ca. 1662–63

Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It is here to paint after: give us your own line and the painters take its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.

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Painting after it: The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, stays the subject.
The credit: Every painting made after it carries “after Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Young Woman with a Lute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art” on its plaque, and on the share page.
The licence: Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it. The credit travels with it everywhere we show it, and it is never enlarged.

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