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Caravaggio · 1597

The Musicians

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Four young musicians crowded close together — a lutenist in white with a red cloak tuning up and looking out at us, a youth seen from behind reading a score, and a winged Cupid reaching for grapes at the left. The Met.

Up to 15.7 × 12 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

15.7″12″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Musicians

The Musicians, also called Concert of Youths, was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who had an avid interest in music. It is one of Caravaggio's more complex early paintings, with four figures that were likely painted from life.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of his life, he moved between Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings have been characterized by art critics as combining a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which had a formative influence on Baroque painting.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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