A boy with a lute

Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista (1682-1754)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1740
Height:
36.3 cm  (14 5/16 in.)
Width:
29.5 cm  (11 5/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
black chalk and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on (faded) blue laid paper

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1979.40.1]

Description

Lute is largely obscured from view (back of fingerboard is visible).

Iconclass

48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4063