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Jean-Baptiste Pater

The Guitarist

1720s
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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Jean-Baptiste Pater worried excessively about his finances and made a prolific number of artworks as a result, with the intention of selling them.

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