Jean-Baptiste Pater Valenciennes 1695 - 1736 Paris

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Description

Jean-Baptiste Pater
recto: a seated gallantverso: a study of a wheel
red chalk

Provenance

Alfred Beurdeley (L.421)

Exhibited

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, The Eighteenth Century, 1961, cat. no. 68, reproduced plate XVII;
Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, European Drawings 1450-1900, 1964.

Catalogue Note

A study for the man seated to the left of the standing lutinist in Pater's painting, Le Joueur de Luth, in the Palace of Sanssouci, Potsdam (see F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris 1928, p. 43, cat. no. 61, reproduced, fig. 48).