The Guitarist
1720s
Jean-Baptiste Pater
Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695–1736)
Drawings
The Guitarist, 1720s. Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695–1736). Red chalk; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1933.416 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Pater, Jean-Baptiste
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- red chalk
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1933.416
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection, Drawings from the Museum Collection, Exhibition of the Month: Music in Art, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Aspects of Drawing, 18th Century Master Drawings, French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792, Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection, French Drawings from the Collection, Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints, Stories From Storage
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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