Jean Baptiste PATER (Valenciennes 1695 - Paris 1736) - Lot 151

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Jean Baptiste PATER (Valenciennes 1695 - Paris 1736) - Lot 151
Jean Baptiste PATER (Valenciennes 1695 - Paris 1736) An encampment. Walnut panel, a board without parquet flooring. 17 x 21 cm. Old restorations. Provenance: - Possibly Bizet Sale, 21 May 1828, lot 10 ("Military tents are set up next to a farmhouse; canteen girls boil the soldier's pot, while he amuses himself by telling nonsense to other women. Rich in colour and composition" (quoted by F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Cat. 427 p. 71) - Catalogued by Schaart in the "Catalogue raisonné of Blenheim Palace, 1861, p. 98 - Blenheim Palace Sale, 5-24 July 1886, lot 210 (190 Gns) - Oppenheim Sale, 13 June 1913, lot 49 (319 l to A.).Wertheimer - Paris, Coll. Wildenstein - Sale for the benefit of the war-torn, 13-23 June 1917, lot 50 (40.000 fcs) Bibliography: Florence INGERSOLL-SMOUSE: Pater, biography and critical catalogue, the complete works of the artist ... (Paris, 1928), "Halte de troupes", panel, 17 x 20 cm , Cat. 406, fig.117 p. 166 Related works: - Attr. to Jean-Baptiste Pater: "Haltes de troupes", engraving (Cf. Ingersoll-Smouse, fig. 207 p.203) - Jean-Baptiste Pater: "Halte de troupes", canvas, 63 x 73 cm; Cf. Ingersoll-Smouse, Cat. 406bis, fig.177 p. 196 - John Baptist Pater: "Halt of Troops", 17.6 x 21.6 cm, Cf. Ingersoll-Smouse Cat. 407, not located, not reproduced - John Baptist Pater: "Halt of Troops", panel, 18.5 x 24 cm; Cf. Ingersoll-Smouse, Cat. 408, fig. 113 p. 164 - John Baptist Pater: "Halt of troops", panel, 18 x 23 cm; Cf. Ingersoll-Smouse, Cat. 409, fig. 114 p. 164 The last two versions have "La marche de troupes" as a pendant and introduce a dog behind the seated soldier in the foreground. Among the numerous studies in the artist's blood, we can compare the "Halte de troupes" with a "Soldat assis, le mousquet sur les genoux" (12 x 14.3 cm, former coll. Camille Groult).
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