Live Auction 20450Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900
JEAN-BAPTISTE PATER (VALENCIENNES 1695-1736 PARIS)
Lot 49 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

JEAN-BAPTISTE PATER (VALENCIENNES 1695-1736 PARIS)

A reclining woman

Closed5 July 2022

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JEAN-BAPTISTE PATER (VALENCIENNES 1695-1736 PARIS)
A reclining woman
red chalk
15.2 x 20.6 cm (6 x 8 1⁄8 in.)

Possibly Alfred de Rougemont, Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14-20 April 1869 (according to a note attached to the mount).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 1998, lot 71.
with Spink-Leger Galleries, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 22 January 2004, lot 98.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 27 January 2016, lot 57.

Specialist note

Florence Raymond compares this sheet to another study of a woman in a similar position, but in reverse and where only the angle of the head is different, at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris (inv. 1591; F. Raymond, op. cit., pl. 23). It is dated to the 1730s when the artist illustrated several fables by La Fontaine.