How does The Lute Player (Cariani) elucidate its History?
In 1899 Adolfo Venturi adjudged the work to be "too high quality to be by Cariani", but Wilhelm von Bode attributed it to Cariani. Bode acquired it from a private Venetian collection in 1890; it entered the Strasbourg museum the following year. Since then it has also been attributed to Giorgione or in 1932 by some art historians to Palma il Vecchio, but is now seen as sharing all the basic characteristics of works securely attributed to Cariani.
Wilhelm von Bode Strasbourg Giorgione Venetian Adolfo Venturi Palma il Vecchio