# Sketches of a Lute Player and Lute

**Jan Anton Garemyn** (Flemish, 1712–1799)  
1756  
Red chalk on ivory laid paper  
22.6 × 36.6 cm (8 15/16 × 14 7/16 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.319. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/36151).

## About this work

Jan Anton Garemyn painted this in 1756, aged 44. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of red chalk on ivory laid paper.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Chalk.** Natural black, red and white chalks. Used together on toned paper they could give the warmth of flesh with very little effort, and they were favourites for studies from life.
- **Laid paper.** Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.

### [Jan Anton Garemyn](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jan-anton-garemyn)

Flemish, 1712–1799

## Facts

- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Culture: Flanders
- The artist was 44
- Real size: about 8½ × 14 in (22 × 36 cm). The 11 × 14 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 18th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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