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| | The Guitar Player by VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan |
 | | Provenance: Mentioned in 1676 as the property of Vermeer's widow and given by her as security to the baker van Buyten, together with Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid (Beit Art Collection, Blessington, Ireland), for a debt of fl 617. |
 | | Subsequent sale Amsterdam, 1696, no. 4: "A young lady playing the guitar, very good, of the same; fl 70." Collection 2d Viscount Palmerston; collection W. Cowper-Temple at Broadland, later Baron Mount-Temple, 1871; art gallery Thos. |
 | | An old copy, canvas, 48,7 x 41,2 cm, is in the Museum of Art, Philadelphia. |
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