Young Couple with Flute & Cittern
1725–78
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 5 7/16 x 4 1/16 in. (13.8 x 10.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.645.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Young Couple with Flute &tern** is a charming etching by Johann Gottlieb Glume a German printmaker active in the 18th centuryca. 1725–78). This intimate scene captures a young man and woman sharing a musical moment, with the flute and cittern—a plucked string instrument akin to a lute—highlighting themes of courtship and domestic harmony. At just 5 7/16 x 4 1/16 inches, the small plate size invites close viewing, evoking the personal, everyday pleasures of Rococo-era leisure. Etching, Glume's chosen medium, involves coating a metal plate with acid-resistant ground, scratching designs into i...