# Lute Player, in French classicism

Valentin de Boulogne painted this in about 1625–26, aged about 34. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1625–26
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 50 1/2 x 39 in. (128.3 x 99.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008.459
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Valentin de Boulogne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/valentin-de-boulogne), French, 1591–1632

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Valentin de Boulogne's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-valentin-de-boulogne?hang=753) (8 works)
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