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The painting is called 'The Bagpipe Player.'
The sitter of this genre-like portrait is the French engraver and art dealer François Langlois (1588-1647), a friend of the painter. The artist and the sitter were both in Rome in 1621, and it is likely that the portrait was executed that time.
Langlois, dressed in a vivid red, plumed beret, looks toward the viewer with a puzzled smile as he plays on a type of bagpipe known as a sordellina.
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