The Guitarist

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Guitarist

Jean-Baptiste PaterLinkedCulture matchlcp-ce2af37e67fa

Date
1720s
Medium
red chalk
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
114157

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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. Jean-Baptiste Pater worried excessively about his finances and made a prolific number of artworks as a result, with the intention of selling them.

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Credit line
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance
?-1933: (Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 1933-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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