Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

French, 1695 - 1736

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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, On the Terrace, c. 1730/1735, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Vogel in memory of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Harmon Booth, 1955.3.1

On the Terrace

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · c. 1730/1735 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1955.3.1

Six women, four men, two children, and a dog sit or stand in a loose line close to us in a misty forest setting in this horizontal landscape painting. Painted in muted and hazy tones of mossy green and earthy brown, a copse of trees takes up the left two-thirds of the composition. A fountain or sculpture about twice the height of the people nestles in the copse. On it a mostly nude woman and child sit next to an object, perhaps a fish or urn, on an arched structure lined with sweeping, curving sides. The people all have pale skin, rosy cheeks, blond or brown hair, and delicate features. The men are clean-shaven, and the women have bow-shaped mouths. The men wear suits and capes and the women long dresses with voluminous skirts in shades of copper brown, shell or dark pink, twilight blue, or parchment white. A man and woman sit together in the lower left corner of the painting, and the woman looks out at us and smiles. Slightly farther back, a man places a crown of flowers on a seated woman, who looks at a companion sitting beside her with flowers held in the apron across her lap. A man and woman embrace to the right of this trio. Next, a woman partially opens a fan and looks down at the man next to her, who kneels and leans forward onto a rock. Two children wearing long garments play with a spindly-legged, shorthaired dog in front of this group, and another couple stands in the lower right corner. That woman wears a black gown, holds a closed fan, and looks off to our left. The man behind her, wearing a red floppy cap and cape over a tawny-brown suit with a wide, lacy collar, looks over her shoulder. The grassy clearing stretches back along the right third of the composition and leads to at least nine more people sitting and standing in the distance. Another copse of trees and far-distant mountains are painted with blended strokes, giving the scene a soft appearance. A few pink-streaked clouds are over the horizon, and smoky blue and white clouds stretch across the lapis-blue sky.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, Fête Champêtre, c. 1730, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1946.7.19

Fête Champêtre

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · c. 1730 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1946.7.19

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, Rococo Wall Design with a Fountain and Swans [verso], c. 1729, red chalk and red chalk counterproof on 2 joined sheets of laid paper, Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips, 1996.25.1.b

Rococo Wall Design with a Fountain and Swans [verso]

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · c. 1729 · red chalk and red chalk counterproof on 2 joined sheets of laid paper ·  Accession ID  1996.25.1.b

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, A Comic Actor Dressed as a Gentleman [recto], c. 1729, red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper, Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips, 1996.25.1.a

A Comic Actor Dressed as a Gentleman [recto]

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · c. 1729 · red chalk on 2 joined sheets of laid paper ·  Accession ID  1996.25.1.a

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, Troops Resting, 1720/1725, etching and drypoint on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.33.10

Troops Resting

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater · 1720/1725 · etching and drypoint on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1972.33.10

Louis de Surugue de Surgis, Les plaisir de l'ete, 1744, etching and engraving, Widener Collection, 1942.9.2446

Les plaisir de l'ete

Louis de Surugue de Surgis · 1744 · etching and engraving ·  Accession ID  1942.9.2446

Louis de Surugue de Surgis, Le desir de plaire, 1743, etching and engraving, Widener Collection, 1942.9.2445

Le desir de plaire

Louis de Surugue de Surgis · 1743 · etching and engraving ·  Accession ID  1942.9.2445

Anonymous Artist, Fête Champêtre, 18th or 19th century, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.14

Fête Champêtre

Anonymous Artist · 18th or 19th century · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.6.14

Anonymous Artist, The Gift of the Fishermen, 18th or 19th century, oil on canvas, Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1954.17.1

The Gift of the Fishermen

Anonymous Artist · 18th or 19th century · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1954.17.1

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Pierre Louis de Surugue, Pierre Louis de Surugue, Pierre Louis de Surugue, Etienne Jeaurat, Benoît Audran II, Louis Gerard Scotin, Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié, François Dumont, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, Bernard Lépicié · 1739 · etching retouched with engraving ·  Accession ID  1942.9.1825.i

Bibliography

1854

  • Blanc, Charles. Les peintres des fêtes galantes: Watteau, Lancret, Pater, Boucher. Paris, 1854.

1928

  • Ingersoll-Smouse, Florence. Pater. Paris, 1928.

2009

  • Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: 361.