A reclining man in elegant clothes seen from behind

Details

JEAN-BAPTISTE PATER (VALENCIENNES 1695-1736 PARIS)
A reclining man in elegant clothes seen from behind
red chalk, heightened with white
18.2 x 23.8 cm (7 x 9 1⁄4 in.)

Provenance

Baron Paul Hatvany (1899-1977), London; thence by descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

Musicians, soldiers or courtiers are common characters in the graphic œuvre of Pater, often depicted at rest under the sun. Pater’s method was one of repetition; the same figures are repeated from one composition to another. This courtier is close, with slight differences, and in reverse, to the figure on the left of the painting The Dance, in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden (inv. Gal.-Nr. 788; F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris, 1928, no. 242, fig. 80).

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