Lot 66
  • 66

Jean-Baptiste Pater

Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description

  • Jean-Baptiste Pater
  • Recto: Study of a Seated WomanVerso: Standing figure study
  • Red chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)
  • 6 x 6 3/4 inches

Provenance

With L'Art Ancien, Paris;
Emile Wolf, New York,
thence by descent 

Exhibited

New York, American Federation of the Arts, 17th and 18th Century European Drawings, 1966, no. 27
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts; Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum; Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Louis XIII - Louis XVI:  French Drawings from a Private Collection, 1980, no. 29
Florida, Tampa Museum, Louis XIII - Louis XVI:  French Drawings from a Private Collection, 1982, no. 24

Catalogue Note

Linked directly to Pater's painting Le Colin-Maillard, at Sanssouci, Potsdam (Fig.1) this delicate red chalk study of a seated woman is preparatory for the woman depicted nonchalantly seated in the left foreground of the composition.
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