upright rectangular body, the lute player holding the instrument to her ear and listening pensively to the notes, her left hand supported on an open music book, on the table with green velvet blanket and green fringes lie a violin, a violin bow and a flute on open music book, she is dressed in a white blouse, golden laced bodice and skirt, sitting on a stool with a red velvet blanket against a dark background, signed at lower right, height 79 cm, width 49 cm, with frame height 90 cm, width 60 cm, the reverse side with impressed mark KPM-Berlin, form and inscription ‘Lautenspielerin nach Caravaggio 1569–1609, Gallerie Liechtenstein, Wien’, blue apocryphal barred shield (Ru)

Franz Wagner, porcelain painter 1894-1908, Vienna IV. Starhemberggasse 42, painted this porcelain picture after the original “Lute Player" in the Liechtenstein Gallery in Vienna, 1906-1908;
Another oil painting by Caravaggio, the "Madonna of the Rosary", is preserved in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.  

Lit.:
Thieme-Becker, volume 5, p. 570 ff, ;

Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi, Italian painter, born in Caravaggio near Bergamo in about 1560-65, as son of the “Maestro di casa e architetto” of the Marchese di Caravaggio, in his youth he undergoes a 4-5 year apprenticeship in Milan, then probably stayed for a while in Venice and is mentioned in Rome at the age of about 20, between 1586 and 1587. The art dealer Valentin provided him with connections to esteemed art lovers and collectors, especially Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who purchased some of his paintings including a "Lute Player" and introduced the painter to his home and environment. From that time onwards, its reputation increased constantly. The high nobility and princes of the church commissioned paintings for the decoration of churches and palaces. He painted religious and secular subjects. Thanks to his skill, he was also highly appreciated as an excellent painter of flowers and fruit. The counterpart, the painting "The Lute Player" featuring a male sitter, is preserved in the Pinacoteca in Turin;