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55 artworks. Compare how artists drew it, or what it meant to them.

Style 1 12

Singer with a Lute
Steen, Jan · 1641-1679
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Singer and Lute Player
Mary Trevor (British, active early 19th century) · 1818
Art Institute of Chicago
Dame met luit
Netherlands
Rijksmuseum
Seated boy playing a lute
Elihu Vedder, American, 1836 – 1923 · 1900s, 1880s
Smithsonian
Musician and Dog
Stephen James Ferris, born Plattsburgh, NY 1835-died Philadelphia, PA 1915 · 1890s
Smithsonian
Two Musicians Playing the Violin and the Lute, plate one from the Small Wedding Dancers
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1538
Art Institute of Chicago
Lady with a Lute
c. 1680 - c. 1730
Rijksmuseum
Two Musicians
1538
Rijksmuseum
Testudinarius. The lute maker.
Germany
Deutsche Fotothek
Celestial Musician
Central Asia · 1300s
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Lute Player and the Singer
Israhel van Meckenem · c. 1495/1503
National Gallery of Art
Lady with the Lute
Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916; Jan Vermeer, Dutch, born Delft, Netherlands 1632-died Delft, Netherlands 1675 · 1900s
Smithsonian

Style 2 11

A Lady Playing the Lute
http://data.europeana.eu/agent/75262 · 1654
Nationalmuseum Sweden
Frans Hals. The lute player :
http://data.europeana.eu/agent/60436
Catholic University of Leuven
Portrait of a Lute Player
Scorel, Jan van; Holbein (II), Hans; Amberger, Christoph · 1510-1562
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
Lute Player and a Standing Man
1658 - 1677
Rijksmuseum
Portrait of a Lute Player
1932_person
National Gallery of Denmark
The Serenade
1629
Rijksmuseum
The Lute Player
Netherlands
Rijksmuseum
The Lute Player
c. 1630 - c. 1640
Rijksmuseum
The Lute Player
c. 1623 - c. 1624
Rijksmuseum
The Lutenist
1661
Rijksmuseum
A Concert
Cariani · c. 1518-1520
National Gallery of Art

Style 3 9

The Lute Player (La joueuse de luth)
Albert Besnard · 1922
National Gallery of Art
The Lute Player
Jacques Callot · c. 1622
National Gallery of Art
The Lute Player
Jacques Callot · c. 1622
National Gallery of Art
Lady with Double-Headed Lute
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (editor) and Cornelis Brouwer (printmaker), after Caspar Netscher · 1781
National Gallery of Art
Angel Playing a Lute
Attributed to Jacopo Confortini (Italian, 1602-1672) · n.d.
Art Institute of Chicago
Sketches of a Lute Player and Lute
Jan Anton Garemyn · 1756
Art Institute of Chicago
Man Playing Lute and Woman Playing Tamborine
Unknown Artist · n.d.
Art Institute of Chicago
The Lute Player and the Harpist
Israhel van Meckenem · c. 1495/1503
National Gallery of Art
Master John Blockhead (the Lute Maker)
Frans Huys · c. 1540-60
Art Institute of Chicago

Style 4 8

Pipa
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) · 1800s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Lute
Italy, Venice · c. 1550
Cleveland Museum of Art
Tanbūr
Syria or Turkey, Ottoman period (1299–1922) · late 1800s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Lute
Italy, Venice · 1300s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Harp-Lute
England, London · 1700s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cover
1900s, 1870s
Smithsonian
Lute-guitar
c. 1880 - c. 1920
Rijksmuseum
luta, kordofon, cittra, zither, lute
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography

Named in the museum's description 15

The lute is small, hidden or only part of the story in these works, so they're shown whole.

lute
Germany
Deutsche Fotothek
lute
Germany
Deutsche Fotothek
Moon Lute (Yueqin)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) · 1800s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Lute or Tiorbino
Italy, probably made in the mid-17th century, but modified by later repair · c. 1620
Cleveland Museum of Art
Oud
West Asia · late 1800s–early 1900s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Lady with a Lute
Thomas Wilmer Dewing · 1886
National Gallery of Art
The Lute Player and the Drinker
Wallerant Vaillant after David Teniers the Younger
National Gallery of Art
Caravaggio. The lute player
Caravaggio
Catholic University of Leuven
Attributes of Music
François Bonvin (French, 1817–1887) · 1863
Cleveland Museum of Art
Lute-guitar
1780
Rijksmuseum
A Lute Player
37679_person
National Gallery of Denmark
A Lute Player
Ubekendt flamsk 1600-tallet; Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da · 1620-1629
SMK – National Gallery of Denmark
lute, string instrument, bow gluta
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Design for Ceiling Decoration, Probably the Muses
Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1790s, 1750s
Smithsonian
Junges Mädchen mit Lautengitarre
Hanisch, Willy (Herstellung) (Fotograf)
Deutsche Fotothek