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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

Fête Champêtre, c. 1730

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 54

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 74.5 x 92.5 cm (29 5/16 x 36 7/16 in.)

framed: 98.1 x 117.5 x 11.4 cm (38 5/8 x 46 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1946.7.19

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (artist) French, 1695 - 1736

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Provenance

Baronin Hannah Matilde von Rothschild [1832-1924, wife of Baron Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild], Grünberg and Frankfurt am Main; purchased 1930 by (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London);[1] sold 1946 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1946 to NGA.

[1] During the preparation of the NGA systematic catalogue of its French paintings of the 15th through the 18th century, Joseph Baillio of Wildenstein & Co. kindly provided the year that the company acquired the painting from the Baronin von Rothschild.

[2] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/768.

Associated Names

Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Rothschild, Wilhelm Carl von

Exhibition History

1932: Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 257 as Conversation Galante.

1939: The Great Tradition of French Painting, Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York, 1939, no. 14 as Conversation Galante.

1946: Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 883.

1983: The Rococo Age: French Masterpieces of the 18th Century, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1983, no. 44.

2003: The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Altes Museum, Berlin, 2003-2004, not in cat. (shown only in Washington).

2011: Shared Treasures: The Legacy of Samuel Kress, Allentown Art Museum, 2011-2012, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1946: Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 57, repro.

1948: Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4.

1952: Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 120, color repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 351, repro.

1961: Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 180, repro. pl. 170-171.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 99.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 88, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 260, repro.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 306-307, figs. 271, 274, color repro. (detail).

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 330, no. 441, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 300, repro.

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: no. 78, 362-364, color repro.