Italian school (XX) - Musici

The painting depicts an allegorical or concertante scene in a seventeenth-century Caravaggesque style, with three figures around a table with a score and a lute. A strong chiaroscuro models the bodies and faces in half-light. The young man in the foreground has dark, long hair and rests on the table. The left-hand figure with an open book and the right-hand figure with a lute and a musical score.