JEAN-BAPTISTE PATER
1695-1736
66 Study of a Seated Woman
Red chalk on tan paper; H: 15.2 cm (6 in.); W: 16.7 cm
(6^9 /i6in.)
86.GB.6i3
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: At bottom left corner, in-
scribed JB. pater in graphite, 25 in brown ink.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Paris; art market,
Paris.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.THIS IS A CHARACTERISTIC RED CHALK FIGURE STUDY
by Pater in a category that clearly reflects the impact of
Watteau. Similarly posed female figures recur with some
frequency in Pater's paintings, but this study was cer-
tainly made in preparation for the seated mother with a
child in the right foreground of a painting showing
troops resting in the countryside (formerly collection of
Mrs. Herbert MacBride, New York).^1 There were only
relatively minor changes in the evolution of the pose
from drawing to painting.i. F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater (Paris, 1921), fig. 126.l62 FRENCH SCHOOL • PATER