In The Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Dog, how is the Date discussed?
This painting belongs to the first period of the artist, the diurnal period, in which – against the current of the painting of the time marked by mannerism – La Tour depicted peasants and beggars in all the crudeness of their truth.It is one of a series of paintings of old beggars. According to a general consensus, The Hurdy-Gurdy Player with a Dog is the oldest painting by La Tour on this subject, datable to around the 1620s, and in any case, predating The Hurdy-Gurdy Player of the Musée d'Arts de Nantes, held to be the most accomplished.
mannerism The Hurdy-Gurdy Player Musée d'Arts de Nantes