Jean-Antoine Watteau Country Dance ca. 1706-1710 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Jean-Baptiste Pater Picking Roses ca. 1730 oil on panel private collection |
"Watteau died young, but the overtones, the fragrance, of his unconventional art were imitated by several skillful painters. Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695-1736) is considered Watteau's sole disciple, since he briefly worked under the master. Pater was fully conversant with the resources of the fête galante genre, yet managed to render it stereotypical."
– from André Chastel's French Art, translated by Deke Dusinberre (Flammarion, 1996)
Jean-Antoine Watteau An Embarrassing Proposal ca. 1716 oil on canvas Hermitage |
Jean-Baptiste Pater Musicians ca. 1730 oil on panel private collection |
Jean-Antoine Watteau The Perspective ca. 1715 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Jean-Antoine Watteau Fêtes vénitiennes 1719 oil on canvas National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh |
Jean-Baptiste Pater On the Terrace ca. 1730-35 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Thomas Gainsborough Conversation in a Park ca. 1740 oil on canvas Louvre |
François Boucher Summer Pastoral 1749 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
Alexandre Paul Joseph Veron Elegant Party in Park late 18th century oil on canvas private collection |
Jean-Antoine Watteau Harlequin and Columbine 1716-18 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
Jean-Antoine Watteau Italian Commedians ca. 1720 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Jean-Antoine Watteau Gilles and his Family 1716 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
Jean-Antoine Watteau Actors of the Comédie française 1712 oil on panel Hermitage |