Facing away from us, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a golden yellow gown, leans her head down toward the lute she holds nearly upright in her lap in this horizontal painting. She sits near the right edge of the painting so her body faces the table beyond her, to our left. Her body is angled away from us but she turns her head so we see her in profile, facing our left. She tips her head to put her ear next to the lute, and she looks down and off to our left with brown eyes under thin, slightly arched brows. She has a straight nose, smooth, flushed cheeks, and her coral-pink lips are…
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The Lute Player

Orazio Gentileschi (Florentine, 1563 - 1639)

c. 1612/1620

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 143.5 x 129 cm (56 1/2 x 50 13/16 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-B
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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