Where to See Girl Interrupted at Her Music: Frick Collection

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer painted this Girl Interrupted at Her Music around 1658. A young woman looks up from her music as a man attends to her. Vermeer's soft light fills the room through an unseen window.

The painting explores themes of music and courtship. It's displayed at the Frick Collection in New York.

You can see it at Frick Collection in New York, United States. This oil on canvas work is part of their permanent collection. Johannes Vermeer created it around 1658.

Vermeer painted this around 1658 in oil on canvas Johannes Vermeer created it as part of the Dutch artistic tradition It's at Frick Collection.

Vermeer often depicted music-making as a metaphor for love and courtship. His musical scenes show figures in quiet, intimate moments bathed in the soft light from a window.

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