Woman Playing a Guitar (Vouet)

Woman Playing a Guitar is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Simon Vouet, executed c. 1618.

The painting is in tenebrist style and depicts a finely dresses woman distractedly playing a guitar.

[1] The woman is seen gazing at into space, and is described by the Met as being "lost in reverie".

[2][1] The work was painted by Simon Vouet while he was living in Rome.

It was painted for a private collector, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art speculates that the work may have once been in the collection of Palazzo Patrizi.