English translation of "un petit joueur de guitare" - "A youngster playing the guitar kept charming the lovers..."

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52 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	General
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	un petit joueur de guitare
Context:	Les peintures avaient été choisies parmi les œuvres de l’école ﬂamande ou celles du XVIIIe siècle français. ADAM et Ève AU PARADIS, de David Teniers, voyageaient de compagnie avec MELEAGre et ATALANTe de Rubens. Un petit joueur de guitare continuait à charmer les amoureux dans deux parcs de Pater. I was unable to determine, by looking at an image of one of the works in question, if the young child is actually playing a lute. Thanks

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52 months ago

Peter Field wrote:

French lyre / lyre guitar

My comment:

Is the child perhaps playing a `French lyre` or `lyre guitar`?

My references:

https://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/org-lyres.htm

52 months ago

Peter Field wrote:

A youngster playing the guitar kept charming the lovers...

My comment:

I do see something which looks like a guitar in a painting entitled "Concert Champêtre". The player is on the left. The instrument is similar to the one played by the maiden in a painting by Jan Vermeer van Delft entitled "La Joueuse de Guitare, dating back to the XVIIth century (cf Wikipedia: la guitare) .

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52 months ago

wrote:

Thanks, very helpful. I was wanting to go back and look up when the guitar was actually invented, or at least came into being in some rudimentary form.

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