Guitar
Joseph de Frías (attributed)
Details
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- Dimensions
- Total length: 948 mm
- Origin
- Spanish
- Department
- Musical Instruments
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1992
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Music Both · 99%
The Metropolitan Museum of Art identifies the object as a guitar and chordophone; the image clearly shows a fretted neck, strings, sound hole, bridge, and tuning pegs.
Subject Matter
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Related to Music Metadata · 99%
The museum classifies the object as a guitar and a chordophone—lute, plucked, fretted—indicating its relationship to music.
Visual Qualities
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 98%
The sound-hole rosette, bridge surrounds, lower-bout motifs, edge details, and decorated fingerboard produce an extensively ornamented surface.
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Symmetrical Visual · 92%
The guitar’s body and decoration are organized around a pronounced vertical axis, with centered neck, sound hole, bridge, and paired ornamental elements.
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Single Object Visual · 99%
The photograph presents a single guitar isolated against a plain gray background.
Time Periods
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18th Century Art Metadata · 97%
The catalog dates the guitar to circa 1780, within the eighteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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Spanish Art Metadata · 95%
The recorded place of origin is Spanish, and the maker is described as Spanish and active in Seville and Cádiz.
Materials
Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects
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Musical Instrument Both · 99%
The catalog identifies the object as a guitar, and its visible construction is unmistakably that of a stringed musical instrument.
Source & rights
Joseph de Frías. Guitar. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.