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Jean-Baptiste Pater Art

French, 1695-1736
Jean-Baptiste François Joseph Pater, born December 29, 1695 in Valenciennes and died July 25, 1736 in Paris, was a French Rococo painter. Son of Antoine Joseph Pater, master sculptor, and Jeanne Élisabeth de Fontaine, he was first a pupil of his father who taught him sculpture. He abandoned sculpture in favor of painting to join, in 1706, a painter from the guild of Saint-Luc in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Guidé. Around 1709-1711, Antoine Watteau, being back in Valenciennes, his father entrusted him to the master of whom he painted a portrait. Having moved to Paris, he worked with the latter, before Watteau's difficult character led them to separate in 1713. He returns to Valenciennes, and tries to make a career there, but meets the opposition of the corporation of Saint-Luc of the city who wants to prevent him because he is not one of its members. He therefore returned to the capital when, in 1720, seized with remorse at the very end of his life, Watteau asked him to be with him, during the last month he had left to live, in order to give him his last advice. He will later say that he learned more during these three weeks of life together than during his years of apprenticeship. He therefore based his career on the imitation of the country festivals of the master with whom he had reconciled and even completed certain commissions after his death. Accredited to the Academy on July 7, 1725 on a portrait by Hallé, he was received on December 31, 1728, with A country party. Rejoicing of soldiers as a piece of reception, “in the particular talent of gallant parties. Like Lancret, he drew his subjects, for his scenes at fairs, from military life or Italian comedy, from theater and fables. His most prestigious clients were Frederick the Great, who posed for two portraits of "turqueries": The Sultan in the Harem and The Sultan in the Garden and owned more than forty paintings by him, and the Duke of La Force. In delicate health, ill, he wrote his will on June 28, 1736, in favor of his sister Marie-Marguerite Pater. He died in his apartment on rue Quincampoix in Paris. His funeral took place in the church of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs, and he was probably buried in the cemetery of the Innocents.
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Artist: Jean-Baptiste Pater
Two military studies, a preparatory red chalk drawing by Jean-Baptiste Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in PARIS, FR
As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings. 1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713. Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings. Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death. 2. Description of the drawing and related artworks Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions. His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s. The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...
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1720s Old Masters Jean-Baptiste Pater Art

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Chalk

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