A Young Lady Playing a Clavichord

Young Lady Playing a Clavichord is a 1660s genre painting by Gerrit Dou.

[2] A young lady, seen at three-quarter length in profile to the left, sits playing on the virginals, placed on a table covered with a Persian carpet.

She wears a green velvet jacket trimmed with white fur and an apron.

Prince de Conti, Paris, April 8, 1777 (5000 francs, Langlier); a note by Glomy in a copy of Blanc's Trésor, p. 380, says that this came from a sale at Langford's, London, and was there regarded as a copy by Schalcken.

Apparently in 1665 the collector Johan de Bye and flower painter Johannes Hannot showed 32 Dou paintings together in Leiden.

In 2012 A Young Lady Playing a Clavichord was sold at Christie's for 3.3 million dollars.

In 2016 both paintings were on show at the Dulwich Gallery, effectively reuniting these works that had once before been shown together.

A Woman playing a Clavichord , Dulwich Gallery, Hofstede de Groot #132