

The Lute Player
1625
The greatest French follower of Caravaggio, Valentin was one of the most outstanding artists in seventeenth-century Rome. He frequently depicted scenes of music-making, drinking, and fortune-telling in the characteristically direct, vivid manner seen here. This image of a young soldier singing a love madrigal is unique in Valentin’s career and is perhaps emblematic of the sobriquet he took in Rome: Amador, Spanish for "lover boy." The painting was part of the collection of Cardinal Mazarin, minister to Louis XIV.
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- License:
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- For more:
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/439933
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