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The Lute Player 1626

by Valentin de Boulogne

The greatest French follower of Caravaggio, Valentin was one of the outstanding artists in seventeenth-century Rome. His most frequent subjects are scenes of merriment, with music-making, drinking, and fortune-telling. They are stock Caravaggesque themes, but painted in a direct and vivid style. This canvas, showing a soldier of fortune singing a love madrigal, is unique i...

Size:: 50 1/2 x 39 in. (128.3 x 99.1 cm)
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More:: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/439933?rpp=90&pg=1&ao=on&ft=paintings&what=Paintings&pos=73

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