The Chord (painting)

The Chord (L'Accord) — alternatively known as The Serenader (Le Donneur de sérénades) and Mezzetino (Mézetin; after the commedia dell'arte character of the same name) — is an oil on panel painting of c. 1715 in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, by the French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau. At 24 by 17 cm, the painting forms a single-figure full-length composition that depicts a guitarist in theatrical costume, sitting amid the landscape; the guitarist's figure, based on a red and black chalk drawing owned by the Louvre, was also used in two other paintings by Watteau, The Surprise (now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles) and Pleasures of Love (now in the Alte Meister Gallery, Dresden).

The Chord
French: L'Accord, French: Le Donneur de sérénades
ArtistAntoine Watteau
Yearc. 1715
CatalogueG 81; DV 215; R 94; HA 144; EC 130; F A10; RM 170
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions24 cm × 17 cm (9.4 in × 6.7 in)
LocationMusée Condé, Chantilly
AccessionPE 371

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, The Chord passed through numerous private collections, until it came into possession of Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, son of King Louis Philippe I; as part of the Duke of Aumale's collection at the Château de Chantilly, The Chord was bequeathed to the Institut de France in 1884.

Further reading
  • Adhémar, Hélène (1950). Watteau; sa vie, son oeuvre (in French). Includes "L’univers de Watteau", an introduction by René Huyghe. Paris: P. Tisné. cat. no. 144. OCLC 853537.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Agratina, E. E. (2016). "Тема комедии дель арте в творчестве Антуана Ватто" [Commedia dell’arte as reflected in Antoine Watteau's Works]. ACADEMIA: Танец. Музыка. Театр. Образование (in Russian) (2 [42]): 45–59. ISSN 2227-4855 – via eLibrary.ru.
  • Camesasca, Ettore (1971). The Complete Paintings of Watteau (loan required). Classics of the World's Great Art. Introduction by John Sunderland. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 110, cat. no. 130. ISBN 0810955253. OCLC 143069 – via the Internet Archive.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Dacier, Émile; Vuaflart, Albert (1922). Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle. III. Catalogue (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. pp. 43, 81, 100, cat. no. 215. OCLC 1039156495.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Ferré, Jean, ed. (1972). Watteau (in French). Madrid: Éditions Athena. cat. no. A10. OCLC 906101135.
  • Glorieux, Guillaume (2011). Watteau. Collection Les Phares (in French). Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod. pp. 217–218. ISBN 9782850883408. OCLC 711039378.
  • Goncourt, Edmond de (1875). Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Paris: Rapilly. p. 77, cat. no. 81. OCLC 1041772738 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Gruyer, François-Anatole (1898). La peinture au chateau de Chantilly. Vol. 2: École française (in French). Paris: Plon-Nourrit. pp. 266–269, cat. no. CXV. OCLC 1048229654 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Gruyer, François-Anatole (1899). Chantilly, Musée Condé. Notice des peintures. Paris: Braun, Clément et cie. pp. 345–346, cat. no. 371 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Mathey, Jacques (1959). Antoine Watteau. Peintures réapparues inconnues ou négligées par les historiens (in French). Paris: F. de Nobele. p. 68. OCLC 954214682.
  • Nemilova, I. S. (1964). Ватто и его произведения в Эрмитаже (Watteau et son œuvre à l'Ermitage) [Watteau and His Works in the Hermitage] (in Russian). Leningrad: Sovetskiy hudozhnik. pp. 92, 174 n. 32. OCLC 67871342.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (2013). Antoine Watteau (1684-1721): la leçon de musique (exhibition catalogue) (in French). Paris: Skira Flammarion. cat. no. 47. ISBN 978-2-0812-9583-4. OCLC 934385505.
  • Posner, Donald (1984). Antoine Watteau. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 169. ISBN 0-8014-1571-3. OCLC 10736607 – via the Internet Archive.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Réau, Louis (1928–1930). "Watteau". In Dimier, Louis (ed.). Les peintres français du XVIII-e siècle: Histoire des vies et catalogue des œuvres (in French). 1. Paris: G. Van Oest. p. 38, cat. no. 94. OCLC 564527521.
  • Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau: Tutti I Dipinti. I Maestri (in Italian). 19. Translated from the French by Marina Anzil Robertini. Milano: Rizzoli. cat. no. 170. OCLC 48636176. OCLC 801077589. Published in French as Tout Watteau. La Peinture. Paris: Flammarion. 1982. ISBN 2-08-012226-6. OCLC 490060827.
  • Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Watteau (in French). Paris: Flammarion. pp. 230, 279. ISBN 9782080120205. OCLC 417153549.
  • Rosenberg, Pierre; Prat, Louis-Antoine (1996). Antoine Watteau : catalogue raisonné des dessins. Paris: Gallimard-Electa. vol. 2, cat. no. 459. ISBN 2070150437. OCLC 463981169.
  • Séailles, Gabriel (1900). Watteau, biographie critique, illustrée de vingt-quatre reporduction hors texte (in French). Paris: H. Laurens. p. 75. OCLC 697836947 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Temperini, Renaud (2002). Watteau. Maîtres de l'art (in French). Paris: Gallimard. cat. no. 58. ISBN 9782070116867. OCLC 300225840.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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  • Zimmermann, E. Heinrich (1912). Watteau: des Meisters Werke in 182 Abbildungen. Klassiker der Kunst (in German). 21. Stuttgart, Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. pp. 28, 186, 189. OCLC 561124140.
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