Youth with musical instrument

Paolini, Pietro (1603-1681)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

17th century

Height:

109.9 cm  (43 1/4 in.)

Width:

81.6 cm  (32 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A young man is dressed in a soft red hat with a feather, white silk shirt, long-sleeved red robe, and short-sleeved black outer robe. He stands in front of two tables and looks over his left shoulder at a black-clothed lady grasping his arm from the side. The tables include a variety of items: playing cards, chess board, tortoise statue, violin, sheet music, an open book, and some other items.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3744