The Music Lesson

ca. 1760 (Baroque)

57.6 cm 44.6 cm 0.2 cm

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Longhi was a successful painter of upper-class life in Venice, and he specialized in stylish interiors. His scenes of the amusements of the wealthy often possess a touch of humor, sometimes mirroring the satires so popular in Venetian theater of the time. In this scene, an eld...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown] [in Walters catalogues as Voltaire chez la Princesse de Condé, French School, eighteenth century]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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