The Guitarist
1720s
- Medium
- red chalk
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209741
Like his illustrious master, Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Pater specialized in fêtes galantes, paintings that featured elegantly attired men and women in bucolic settings engaged in decorously amorous play. Also like his teacher, Pater worked out his preliminary ideas in red chalk studies. During the 17th century, guitar virtuosos from Italy and Spain made their way to the court of Louis XIV, and by the 18th century, the instrument had become integrated into French culture of gallantry and featured prominently in fêtes galantes.
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1933.416
Registry history
- 1720s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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