Lot Essay
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Les Amants Heureux
Details
Jean-Baptiste Pater (Valenciennes 1695-1736 Paris) and studio
Les Amants Heureux
oil on canvas
18 x 20 7/8 (45.5 x 53.4 cm.)
Les Amants Heureux
oil on canvas
18 x 20 7/8 (45.5 x 53.4 cm.)
Provenance
Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918), Halton House, Buckinghamshire, by 1884.
Art market, London, July 1946.
Rothschild collection.
Art market, London, July 1946.
Rothschild collection.
Literature
C. Davis, Catalogue of the Works of Art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, I, London, 1884, as 'Pater', unpaginated, no. 69, incorrectly listed as on panel.
Collections de Mr Le Baron Alfred de Rothschild Seamore Place et Halton, Paris, 1901, as 'J. B. Pater'.
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris, 1928, pp. 39 and 205, no. 17, fig. 214, incorrectly listed as on panel, as 'probably the work of an English artist after Pater'.
D. Cooper ed., Les grandes collections privées, Paris, 1963, p. 173, illustrated on the front cover.
Collections de Mr Le Baron Alfred de Rothschild Seamore Place et Halton, Paris, 1901, as 'J. B. Pater'.
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris, 1928, pp. 39 and 205, no. 17, fig. 214, incorrectly listed as on panel, as 'probably the work of an English artist after Pater'.
D. Cooper ed., Les grandes collections privées, Paris, 1963, p. 173, illustrated on the front cover.
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