| The Lute Player | |
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| Artist | Giovanni Cariani |
| Year | circa 1515–1516 |
| Medium | oil oncanvas |
| Movement | Italian Renaissance Cinquecento |
| Subject | An anonymous young man playing alute |
| 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 byGiovanni Cariani, now in theMusée des Beaux-Arts inStrasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 236.[2]
In 1899Adolfo Venturi adjudged the work to be "too high quality to be by Cariani", butWilhelm von Bode attributed it to Cariani. Bode acquired it from a privateVenetian collection in 1890; it entered the Strasbourg museum the following year.[1] Since then it has also been attributed toGiorgione or in 1932 by some art historians toPalma il Vecchio, but is now seen as sharing all the basic characteristics of works securely attributed to Cariani.[3]
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