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A violin, bow, and at least two pages of sheet music hang from a dark, forest-green, wooden door in this vertical painting. The string holding the violin hangs from a nail at the top center of the composition. The violin takes up the top two-thirds of the painting. The wood body of the instrument is a deep chestnut brown alongside the fingerboard, and it lightens to tawny brown at the corners. White powder coats the strings near the bridge and gathers on the instrument beneath it, where the strings are played. The bow hangs to our right, and it and the violin overlap sheets of music, which…

The Old Violin

William Michael Harnett (American, 1848 - 1892)

1886 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife in honor of Paul Mellon

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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