Lot 39
  • 39

Jean-Baptiste Pater

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Pater
  • Etude de femme assise, les jambes nues
  • Sanguine
    Avec le numéro de l'Album Groult en bas à gauche : 105
  • SANGUINE
  • 179 x 150 mm ; 7 by 6 in

Provenance

Camille Groult (1837-1908) ; Jean Groult (1868-1951)

(Voir lot n°36)

Condition

Glued only at the top to the mount. This drawing is backed to another piece of paper with traces of a red chalk counterproof. The glue has slightly stained the paper, especially in the upper part. Slight foxing. Some slight surface dirt on the right side. Sold in a giltwood frame.
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Catalogue Note

Cette étude est typique des personnages que Pater aimait incorporer dans ses tableaux représentant Les Baigneuses, dans ce cas il dépeind une figure central assise dans un tableau du même sujet actuellement dans la collection du Nelson-Atkins the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City (Inv. no. F82-35/2).

The present study is typical of the figures that Pater sought to incorporate into his paintings portraying Les Baigneuses, in this instance featuring as the central seated figure in a painting of the same subject now in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City (Inv. no. F82-35/2). 

See also lot 36.