JÉRÔME-FRANÇOIS CHANTEREAU (PARIS CIRCA 1710-1757)

Little is known about Chantereau, who was active as a painter, engraver and art dealer. Few drawings by his hand survive; most are in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (inv. NM2806/1863-NM2814/1863, NM Anck. 448; see P. Bjurström, French Drawings. Eighteenth Century, Stockholm, 1982, nos. 897-906, ill.). Chantereau’s drawing style shows the influence of artists such as Jean-Antoine Watteau, and the present drawing is direct influenced by one of Watteau’s most gifted pupils, Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736). The composition seems indeed to have been inspired by the latter’s painting, Winter, now in Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona (inv. 48003; see F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris, 1928, no. 581, ill.).