Dancers in a Pavilion
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 55.3 × 47 cm · framed: 79.5 × 70 × 10.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Commodore Louis D. Beaumont
Accession Number
1938.392
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About this artwork
Jean-Baptiste Pater was the sole student of the early 18th-century artist Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Upon Watteau's death, Pater finished some of his teacher's compositions and copied them for reproduction. Due to this association, Pater was in the position to capitalize on the popularity of the fête galante genre invented by Watteau. This genre was based on the fêtes held by the aristocracy to escape the tedium of life at the French court, and depict the same amusements: conversation, music, ...