Title: Lute
Object type: Lute
Date: 1669
Culture: Italian
Artist:  Pietro Railich 
Artist bio: German, Füssen 1615–ca. 1678 Padua
Artist nationality: German, active Italy
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Spruce, snakewood, ebony
Dimensions: 46 3/4 × 11 × 5 1/2 in. (118.7 × 27.9 × 14 cm)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Credit line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2008
Geography:  Padua   Italy      
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY