"19th Century French School, After Jacques-françois Courtin, The Zither Player"
Oil on canvas depicting a musical scene composed with elegance and balance. At the center of the composition, a young woman wearing a white and blue dress and a red hat with feathers is seated and playing the zither. She is surrounded by three young boys: one lifts a richly decorated curtain behind her, the second holds a recorder, and the third reads a score. All three seem attentive and absorbed by the musician's playing...
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Restored and relined canvas: period frame in carved and gilded wood with channels, decorated with painted tortoiseshell fillets.
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