Young Girl at the Keyboard
Medium
chalk manner with roulette printed from two plates in gray and red ink on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 17.5 × 14.7 cm (6 7/8 × 5 13/16 in.) cut within platemark
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7008
Art Historical Context
This delicate print captures a girl seated at a keyboard instrument, her focused expression and graceful hands evoking the quiet intimacy of domestic music-making in the Dutch Golden Age. Created in 1767 by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel and printmaker Johannes Kornlein after a design by Jan de Bray (formerly attributed to Gerr Dou), the work reflects the 18th fascination with reproducing earlier masterpieces a wider audience. Ploos van Amstel, a prominent Dutch collector and publisher, specialized in innovative reproductive prints that brought 17th-century paintings to new generations of enthusias...