Live Auction 16185A Love Affair with France: The Elizabeth Stafford Collection
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater (Valenciennes 1695-1736 Paris)
Lot 1126

Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater (Valenciennes 1695-1736 Paris)

The guitar player

Closed1 November 2018

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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater (Valenciennes 1695-1736 Paris)
The guitar player
with number '76' in pen (lower left)
red chalk
5 ¾ x 5 in. (14.5 x 13 cm.)

Camille Groult, Paris (1837-1908) and by descent to his son Jean Groult (1868-1951);
Pierre Bordeaux-Groult.
Anonymous sale; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 19 December 1958, lot 58 bis.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 December 1960, lot 66.
Anonymous sale; Palais Galliera, Paris, 30 March 1963, lot 42 (reproduced on the cover).
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York; where acquired by the late owners, 1966.

Specialist note

Possibly inspired by Watteau's Le Conteur, this drawing offers a rare depiction of a woman playing the guitar. Executed with Pater's signature technique in red chalk, the sheet is numbered '76' at lower left, indicating its provenance from the so-called 'Groult album', which originally contained more than 500 sheets by Pater and Watteau (P. Rosenberg, 'L'album Groult, dit aussi album Lepeltier', in Preussen: die Kunst und das Individuum. Beiträge gewidmet Helmut Borsch-Supan, Berlin, 2003, pp. 29-39).