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Jean-Baptiste Pater

French, 1695–1736

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Jean-Baptiste Pater was a French painter of the early eighteenth century working primarily in oil on canvas. He specialized in fêtes galantes and scenes of aristocratic leisure, continuing the tradition established by his teacher Antoine Watteau. His compositions feature elegantly dressed figures in parkland settings, rendered with a light palette and fluid brushwork characteristic of the Rococo period. Pater's work maintained considerable popularity among French collectors during his lifetime and contributed significantly to the codification of the fêtes galantes as a major genre of French painting.

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Artworks (5)

The Guitarist

1720 · red chalk

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Dancers in a Pavilion: saved stretcher and lining fabric

1720 · fabric

Unframed: 55.3 x 47 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Dancers in a Pavilion

1720 · oil on canvas

Framed: 79.5 x 70 x 10.5 cm (31 5/16 x 27 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 55.3 x 47 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Summer

1720 · oil on canvas

Framed: 76.5 x 66 x 9 cm (30 1/8 x 26 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 65.3 x 53.5 cm (25 11/16 x 21 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Spring

1715 · oil on canvas

Framed: 76.5 x 66 x 9 cm (30 1/8 x 26 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 65 x 53.7 cm (25 9/16 x 21 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Guitarist
1720 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Dancers in a Pavilion: saved stretcher and lining fabric
1720 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Spring
1715 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Dancers in a Pavilion
1720 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Summer
1720 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Study of a Seated Woman, by Jean Baptiste Pater (Getty 103R0J)

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Art Institute of Chicago

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