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Bathing Party in a Park

Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736)

The Wallace Collection

Bathing Party in a Park

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Watteau (q.v.) is credited with the introduction into French art of the unabashed scene of female nudity (cf. Watteau P439). But it is in the work of his followers Lancret and Pater (q.v.; cf. Lancret P408) that the theme of the female bather appeared, which was to prove so fruitful a subject in French art for more than two centuries, culminating in the formal experiments of Cézanne and Picasso. Pater treated the subject on several occasions, and the present picture is dateable to the 1730s.

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Title

Bathing Party in a Park

Date

1730s

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 64.2 x W 85 cm

Accession number

P426

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford by 1859; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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Jean-Baptiste Pater

1695–1736

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