L'enchanteur

Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684-1721)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1713

Height:

18.0 cm  (7 1/16 in.)

Width:

25.0 cm  (9 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on copper

Description

A guitarist plays for an elegant woman dressed in white. A female companion and Mezzetin observe. A tambourine lies on the ground.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]
Tambourine [2746]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Baetjer, Katharine, ed. Watteau, Music and Theater (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009) 29.

RIdIM record id

1897