The scale of love

Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684-1721)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1715-1718

Height:

50.8 cm  (20 in.)

Width:

59.7 cm  (23 1/2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

A colorfully costumed guitarist plays for a young woman seated at his feet and holding a music book.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (five-course baroque guitar)

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Vidal, Mary. Watteau's painted conversations: Art, literature, and talk in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992) 40-41.

Ember, Ildikó. Music in painting: Music as a symbol in Renaissance and Baroque painting. Trans. by Mary and András Boros-Kazai (Budapest: Corvina, 1984) plate 48. ISBN 9631317234. RILM 1984-6813.

RIdIM record id

3239