Boy and Lute / Flute, a copper engraving by Victor Marie Picot, c 1720
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Directory: Fine Art: Prints: Engravings: Pre 1800: Item # 1473791
Directory: Fine Art: Prints: Engravings: Pre 1800: Item # 1473791
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Young Flute Player is the title of an oil painting by Benedetto Luti from the 1720’s, now in the Hermitage. An earlier version by Luti depicted a young boy in a blue jacket without any instrument. This engraving, made by Victor Marie Picot was published in London in 1780 as Boy and Lute, obviously mixing up the motif and the artist (!). Contributing to this is probably the Walpole family crest having been pushed in between the letters of the title. The painting belonged to the Houghton Hall art collection, owned by Robert Walpole and partly sold to Catherine the Great. At present the engraving is framed. Measures of the frame "11 ¾ x 7 ¾ / 29.5 x 22.5 cm ), of the paper "6 ¾ x 5 / 17.7 x 12.7 cm. Condition: fine. Available with or without frame.
Young Flute Player is the title of an oil painting by Benedetto Luti from the 1720’s, now in the Hermitage. An earlier version by Luti depicted a young boy in a blue jacket without any instrument. This engraving, made by Victor Marie Picot was published in London in 1780 as Boy and Lute, obviously mixing up the motif and the artist (!). Contributing to this is probably the Walpole family crest having been pushed in between the letters of the title. The painting belonged to the Houghton Hall art collection, owned by Robert Walpole and partly sold to Catherine the Great. At present the engraving is framed. Measures of the frame "11 ¾ x 7 ¾ / 29.5 x 22.5 cm ), of the paper "6 ¾ x 5 / 17.7 x 12.7 cm. Condition: fine. Available with or without frame.
