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Portrait of a Musician

Alessandro Longhi · c. 1770

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Artist

Alessandro Longhi

Date

c. 1770

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

144.5 × 104.6 cm (56 7/8 × 41 3/16 in.); Framed: 162 × 123.9 × 14 cm (63 3/4 × 48 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)

Place

Italy

Period

18th century

Themes

Portraits · Music and dance · Reading and letters

Main colour

Brown · lightness 41, colourfulness 14

Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-31); image released under CC0. Licence rules