The Music Lesson

Johannes Vermeer’s The Music Lesson shows a girl in a white blouse with a dark blue bodice and red skirt standing at a keyboard instrument in a sunlit Dutch interior. A woman on the right stands near a table with a patterned cloth and a white pitcher, creating a balanced composition with the instrument as the focal point. The scene uses a restrained palette of blues and warm yellows, with meticulous attention to light, texture, and quiet domestic detail characteristic of Vermeer’s refined genre style.