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Dancers in a Pavilion

Jean-Baptiste PaterLinkedCulture matchlcp-ce2af37e67fa

Date: 1720s
Medium: oil on canvas
Culture: France, 18th century
Department: European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 117774

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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, dance, and the pursuit of love. Dancers in a Pavilion is a pastiche of several works by Watteau. The couple in this painting is most likely performing the minuet, which was considered the most flirtatious of dances.

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Credit line: Gift of Commodore Louis D. Beaumont
Provenance: probably by 1773: Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Palace Sans-Souci, Potsdam, Germany | Until 1926: German Imperial Family | By 1931: Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), London, England | -1938: Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont, (1857-1942), Cap d'Antibes, France, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1938-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH