Guitar
ca. 1780
Medium
Spruce, rosewood, cedar, ebony, mother-of-pearl
Dimensions
Total length: 948 mm
Classification
Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Culture
Spanish
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1992
Accession Number
1992.279
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Joseph de Frías · 1775–1800
**Joseph de Frías** (active ca. 1775–1800) was a Spanish guitar maker based in Seville and Cádiz during the late eighteenth century. Little is known of his personal life or training, as biographical details remain sparsely recorded beyond his professional activity in the southern Spanish centers of instrument making. De Frías worked within the established Spanish tradition of guitar construction,...