# The Hurdy-gurdy Player [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LA TOUR, Georges de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 162 x 105 m ## Commentary The representation of popular music, played mainly in the street and featuring instruments which were typical of this type of music, appeared in Rome in the 1620s emerging from Flemish and French painting. The most important examples of this genre include the Hurdy-gurdy Player by Georges de La Tour. The attribution to Georges de La Tour is dubious. However, this work has the same picturesque, rugged, descriptive quality as the St Jerome in Stockholm, and it is painted from a very similar model. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Blind Musician]() - [Cheater with the Ace of Diamonds]() - [Christ in the Carpenter's Shop \(detail\)]() - [Christ in the Carpenter's Shop]() - [Fortune Teller]() - [Job Mocked by his Wife]() - [Magdalen of Night Light]() - [Magdalen with the Smoking Flame]() - [Peasant Couple Eating]() - [Penitent St Jerome]() - [Saint Jerome Reading]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()