ID 793457
Lot 50 | JEAN-BAPTISTE PATER (VALENCIENNES 1695-1736 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
An elegant seated lady and a standing woman pouring a jug (recto); A seated woman (verso)
with number ‘67’
red chalk (recto), red chalk counterproof (verso)
19.3 x 22.6 cm (7 3⁄4 x 8 7⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Camille Groult, Paris (1832-1908); Hôtel Drouot, 19 December 1941, Paris, lot 55.
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris (Le Dessin français de Watteau à Prud’hon, 1951, no. 102, ill.)
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 November 1986, lot 19.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 1st July 1991, lot 46.
with Kate de Rothschild, London, 1988 (Master Drawings, 1550-1850, New York, London, 1988, no. 20).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2008, lot 80.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2017, lot 97.
Literature
F. Raymond, L'Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736) dans les principales collections publiques françaises, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise, Lille, Charles-de-Gaulle University, 2002, I, p. 102.
F. Raymond, La Fortune critique de Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736) et son œuvre dessiné, Paris, 2005, fig. 165 (unpublished).
Exhibited
New York, The Frick Collection, Watteau and his world. French Drawings from 1700-1750, 1999, no. 73, ill. (entry by A. Wintermute)
Special notice
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| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695 - 1736) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Stone |
| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695 - 1736) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Stone |
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