{"id":1407,"title":"The Bagpiper","medium":"Oil on canvas","classification":"Paintings","dimension":"71 1/2 x 58 in. (181.61 x 147.32 cm) (sight)\r\n80 x 65 3/4 x 3 in. (203.2 x 167.01 x 7.62 cm) (outer frame)","object_name":"Painting","continent":"Europe","country":"France","nationality":"French","dated":"1910–11","room":"G371","role":"Artist","inscription":"Signature","signed":"LR in dark brown: [a.derain]","markings":"Notation on recto, LL, needs lab exam--it may be the artist's date. According to early literature, the painting is dated 1910-11. Need to look at this in lab--it's undecipherable now.","text":"Although Derain had helped found Fauvism and had been an early adherent of Cubism, he increasingly fell away from both aesthetics, feeling their obsession with technique had supplanted the content of their work. Derain, instead, began to turn toward the Old Masters, even as he kept pace with the spirit of his own time. Thus, while The Bagpiper at Camiers owes much to Cézanne in color, brushwork and composition, a great debt to the Old Masters is also evident, especially the arcadian scenes peopled with shepherds and musicians by Titian, and Derain's countryman, Claude Lorrain. The Bagpiper at Camiers became one of Derain's best known pre-war pictures and its lyrical and romantic feeling established him as an artist in the grand tradition of large formats and timeless subjects.","creditline":"Bequest of Putnam Dana McMillan","accession_number":"61.36.10","artist":"André Derain","life_date":"French, 1880–1954","department":"European Art","rights_type":"Public Domain","image_width":6546,"image_height":8118,"recent":0,"see_also":[],"sort_number":"61    36   10","image":"valid","public_access":1,"curator_approved":0,"highlights":0,"Cache_Location":"001000\\400\\00\\1407","Primary_RenditionNumber":"mia_6001169.jpg","Rights_Image_Display":"Full","TitleAlt":"The Bagpiper at Camiers, Le Joueur de Cornemuse","related:audio-stops":[{"title":"Andre Dérain, The Bagpiper at Camiers","_id":"1407","objectId":"1407","link":"http://audio-tours.s3.amazonaws.com/p942.mp3","number":"942","type":"audio"}],"mtime":"2026-02-04T06:00:50.797Z"}