The Lute Player (Cariani)
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| Artist | Giovanni Cariani |
| Year | circa 1515–1516 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Movement | Italian Renaissance Cinquecento |
| Subject | An anonymous young man playing a lute |
| Dimensions | 71 cm × 65 cm (28 in × 26 in)[1] |
| Location | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg |
| Accession | 1891 |
The Lute Player is a 1514-1516 oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Cariani, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 236.[2]
History[edit]
In 1899 Adolfo Venturi adjudged the work to be "too high quality to be by Cariani", but Wilhelm von Bode attributed it to Cariani. Bode acquired it from a private Venetian collection in 1890; it entered the Strasbourg museum the following year.[1] Since then it has also been attributed to Giorgione or in 1932 by some art historians to Palma il Vecchio, but is now seen as sharing all the basic characteristics of works securely attributed to Cariani.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Roy, Alain (June 2017). De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. pp. 122–123. ISBN 978-2-35125-151-5.
- ^ Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 60–61. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.
- ^ (in Italian) Simone Facchinetti, Gli esordi di Giovanni Cariani, Bergamo, 2016.
External links[edit]
- Le Joueur de luth Archived 2023-01-01 at the Wayback Machine, presentation of the painting on the museum's website
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