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The Guitarist
Jean-Baptiste Pater1720s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Like his illustrious master, Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Pater specialized in <em>fêtes galantes</em>, 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.
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- Title: The Guitarist
- Creator: Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695–1736)
- Date Created: 1720s
- Provenance: (Richard Owen, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.416
- Medium: red chalk
- Fun Fact: Jean-Baptiste Pater worried excessively about his finances and made a prolific number of artworks as a result, with the intention of selling them.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 1933.416
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