Keywords: Portrait of a Musician by a Cremonese artist - Ashmolean Museum.jpg Portrait of a musician by a Cremonese painter The sitter has traditionally but incorrectly been identified as Antonio Stradivari Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 and Gasparo da Salò 1540-1609 have been suggested He holds a Brescian viola da gamba and there is an alto-viol with a bow in the background 1570 “1590 oil on canvas cm 75 56 Ashmolean Museum accession number A863a http //www ashmolean org/ash/objects/makedetail php pmu 730 mu 732 gty asea sec dtn 20 sfn Artist 20Sort Title cpa 1 rpos 0 cnum mat pro anum art Cremonese 20Artist ttl sou Ashmolean Museum http //terresdefemmes blogs com/Monteverdi 202 jpg other versions <gallery>Portrait of a Musician by a Cremonese artist - Ashmolean Museum - Robbins-Landon 1991 p74 jpg</gallery> PD-old-100 Painters from Cremona 16th-century unidentified painters 1597c Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum Portraits of Claudio Monteverdi Gasparo da Salò 1590s paintings from Italy 1590s paintings in the United Kingdom 1597 portrait paintings Male 16th-century portrait paintings in the United Kingdom 1597 16th-century portrait paintings of men at half length 1597 Mannerist paintings in the United Kingdom Portraits with musical instruments 1597 String instrumentalists in art Young men in art Paintings of men holding musical instruments |