Instrumental

André Derain
Guitar Player
1928
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

John Constable
Young Woman and Soldier with Guitar
ca. 1806
drawing
British Museum

attributed to Luigi Miradori
Girl with Lute
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Pietro Francavilla
Orpheus with Cerberus
1598
marble statue (larger than life size)
Musée du Louvre

Frans Hals
Le Bouffon au luth
ca. 1623-24
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Young Man with Lira da Braccio
16th century
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Anonymous Italian Artist
Portrait of a Musician
ca. 1570
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Antonio Mancini
Acrobat with Violin
1878
oil on canvas
(sold at Tajan, Paris, 2013)
private collection

Charles Bird King
Mrs. John Quincy Adams
ca. 1828
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Étienne de Lavallée
Musician
ca. 1770
drawing
British Museum

Guillaume Lethière
Portrait of Adèle Papin playing the Harp
1799
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Thomas Eakins
Woman playing the Cello
ca. 1880-90
platinum print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anselm Feuerbach
Miriam
1862
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Anonymous French Artist
Portrait d'un flûtiste borgne
1566
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

André Derain
Harlequin with Guitar
1924
oil on canvas
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Francesco de' Bianchi Ferrari
Arion riding a Dolphin (after Ovid)
ca. 1509-1510
tempera on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Joan Cassis
Sheron with Piano
1972
hand-colored gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

from Prometheus Unbound

Fair are others; none beholds thee,

    But thy voice sounds low and tender

Like the fairest, for it folds thee

    From the sight, that liquid splendour,

And all feel, yet see thee never,

As I feel now, lost for ever!

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820)