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Another of Caravaggio's early works, painted when he was only twenty-two years old. The two figures seen frontally are undoubtably portraits, but their identity is unknown. Yet athe fact that they are portraits disappoints those crotocs who would like to make a conventional reading of the scene and concentrate on the noble, classical character of the composition, organized around the traditional opposition between the figure of the lute player and the corresponding figure whom we see from behind. The face between these two is Caravaggio's; the figure on the left is taken from an earlier composition (Young Peeling a Pear) which we know only from copies. |
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