Cavalier with Lute: Museum Object and Cultural History
Cavalier with Lute: date made: 1893. original artist: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome. Object Name: drawing.
The object in the museum catalogue
The signed 1893 pen and ink drawing of a seated cavalier in large hat with plume and high boots, suggests seventeenth-century France, especially the era of the swashbuckling heroes known as three musketeers, created by Alexander Dumas, père. The cavalier is accompanying himself on a lute in what might be a tavern scene. A wine glass and carafe are lightly sketched at center left in pencil. Ferris also made a print of this subject.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1893
- original artist: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
- Object Name: drawing
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: graphite (overall material)
- Measurements: sheet: 22.5 cm x 17.5 cm; 8 7/8 in x 6 7/8 in
- ID Number: GA.16620
- catalog number: 16620
- accession number: 119780
- Credit Line: Mrs. J. L. Gerome Ferris
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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