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X. Scène galante avec Louis XV
Entered November 2025
Whereabouts unknown
Oil on panel
23 x 34 cm
PROVENANCE
France, private collection
Paris, sale, Bonhams, November 6, 2025, lot 49: ”Entourage de Jean-Baptiste Pater . . . Scène galante avec Louis XV / huile sur panneau / oil on panel / 23 x 34 cm (9 1/16 x 13 3/8in) / Provenance / Private collection / France” Est. €1,80 - €2,00. Bought in.
REMARKS
Jacques Philippe Le Bas after Watteau, L’Assemblée galante (detail), engraving, 1731.
Jean Michel Liotard after Watteau, La Conversation (detail), engraving, 1732.
The ascription of this painting to Pater is a standard mode of assigning the name of a known artist to an otherwise anonymous work that has apparent associations with the Watteau circle. But nothing in this work specifically recalls Pater’s manner. In fact, this picture is but a pastiche of elements borrowed from Watteau. The couple at the left and the four children at the right were all derived from Le Bas’ engraving after L’Assemblée galante. The couple seated at the middle of the composition, including the so-called Louis XV, was borrowed from Liotard’s engraving after Watteau’s La Conversation.