The Musicians
Caravaggio
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
The Musicians, painted around 1597, stands as one of Caravaggio's earliest and most enigmatic masterworks, commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte — one of the artist's most influential patrons. Now housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this extraordinary composition brings together four androgynous young figures absorbed in the pleasures of music, transforming a secular genre scene into something deeply charged with sensory and symbolic meaning.
Caravaggio employs his signature tenebrism — dramatic contrasts of light and shadow — to model each figure with a sculptural intensity rarely achieved in painting. The lute player at center struggles to tune his instrument, sheet music visible before him, while Cupid reaches for grapes symbolizing both earthly pleasure and Bacchic abandon. The interplay of gazes, textures, and half-open lips suggests longing and melancholy, situating the work within the tradition of amorous allegory.
This museum-quality reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-stretched over a solid 0.75" gallery wrap frame, faithfully rendering every nuance of Caravaggio's brushwork and tonal depth. Ready to hang and built to last, it brings the gravitas of a world-class collection into your space with uncompromising craftsmanship.
| Artist | Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) |
| Year | 1597 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 36 1/4 x 46 5/8 in. (92.1 x 118.4 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 25 × 20 cm (10″ × 8″) |
| Medium | 76 × 51 cm (30″ × 20″) |
| Large | 152 × 102 cm (60″ × 40″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
