Conine’s fascination with music drives this scene, which portrays a musician strumming a guitar in a room filled with shadowy ambiance. The artist balances the blue light and neutral reflection on the player’s black leather with the deep red of the guitar. Rembrandt’s dead-coloring technique (all the colors of the palette mixed together) is used in the background, which lightens toward the body, radiating an aura of mystery that surrounds the musician.