# A Boy with a Lute

- By: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1683 - 1754)
- Date: c. 1740
- Medium: black chalk and charcoal, heightened with white chalk on (faded) blue laid paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: overall: 36.3 x 29.5 cm (14 5/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
- Culture: Venetian
- Credit line: Gift of the Ruth and Vernon Taylor Foundation
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.57124.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/7c252fbb-d02a-467b-9e11-55ac638ace46/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)