Lute Player

Lute Player
ArtistValentin de Boulogne
Year1625–26
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions128.3 cm × 99.1 cm (50.5 in × 39.0 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession2008.459

Lute Player is an early 17th-century painting by French artist Valentin de Boulogne. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a young soldier playing a lute. The painting was originally in the collection of Cardinal Mazarin, and is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]

  1. ^ Annick Lemoine, Keith Christiansen, Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, p. 162 ISBN 978-1-58839-602-0