The Chord (L'Accord), alternatively known as The Serenader (Le Donneur de sérénades) and Mezzetino (Mézetin), is an oil on panel painting in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, by the French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau, variously dated c. 1714–1717.

At 24 by 17 cm, the painting forms a single-figure full-length composition that depicts a male guitarist in theatrical costume, sitting amid the landscape.

[3] In the 1950 catalogue raisonné, the Louvre staff curator Hélène Adhémar listed the painting as a Spring-Summer 1716 work;[4] in a 1959 study, the painter and connoisseur Jacques Mathey attributed it to c.

[5] In the 1968 catalogue raisonné, the Italian art historian Ettore Camesasca dated the painting c. 1715;[6] in the 1980s, the French scholar Marianne Roland Michel suggested a ca.

It shows a full-length single figure of a male guitarist in a theatrical costume, seated tuning a guitar amid a landscape; the man's head, turned to the left, is barren.