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The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). It is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York where it has been since 1952. It underwent extensive restoration in 1983.Caravaggio entered the household of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte sometime in 1595 and The Musicians is thought to have been his first painting done expressly for the cardinal.