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Nicolas Lancret
Guitar Player   c. 1725-1730

red chalk touched with darker red chalk on laid paper
23.9 x 11.6 cm
Purchased 1951
National Gallery of Canada (no. 6048r)

Lancret was a prolific draughtsman whose surviving drawings are mostly studies of the human figure dressed in the elaborate costumes of the day. Like his mentor, Watteau, he too was a painter of "fêtes galantes", in which one often sees musicians such as this guitar player, their presence in these idyllic scenes emblematic of life's pleasures.
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