The love lesson

Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684-1721)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1716
Height:
44.0 cm  (17 5/16 in.)
Width:
61.0 cm  (24 in.)
size is without frame
Technique / Medium:
oil on walnut panel

Additional titles

Le leçon d'amour

    Item location

  • Nationalmuseum (Sverige)
    [Museum inv. no.: NM 5015]

Description

A guitarist plays for a group of strollers seated beneath a statue of a nymph.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237] (five-course baroque guitar)

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Grasselli, Margaret Morgan and Pierre Rosenberg. Watteau, 1684-1721 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1984) 381-384, cat. no. 55.

RIdIM record id

3539