Young Girl at the Keyboard
Medium
chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red-orange ink on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 17.6 × 14.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 3/4 in.) cut within platemark
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr.
Accession Number
1977.67.12
Art Historical Context
This delicate print, *Young Girl at the Keyboard*, captures a quiet moment of domestic music-making, a theme popular in Dutch art for its associations with harmony, education, and feminine virtue. Created in 1767, it reproduces a composition originally attributed to Jan de Bray, a 17th-century Haarlem painter known for his sensitive portraits and genre scenes. The work was edited by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, a prominent Dutch collector and publisher who championed the reproduction of old master drawings for a wider audience. What makes this impression especially noteworthy is its sophisticat...