![Georges de la Tour - Man Playing the Hurdy Gurdy [1610-30]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3865/14923561952_056bf3e8bb_o.jpg)
La Tour shows an old blind itinerant musician strumming the hurdy-gurdy, a theme repeated several times with variations. The painter, active in Lorraine (in eastern France) and influenced by Caravaggio, delights in recreating details like the ribbon that adorns the instrument and the wrinkles of old man's face. It is a fragment of a larger composition.
[Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid - Oil on canvas, 86 x 62.5 cm]