PATER, Jean Baptiste Joseph
(b. 1695, Valenciennes, d. 1736, Paris)

Concert Champêtre

1730-35
Oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes

Pater followed Watteau closely in the genre called fête galante, transposing his atmosphere to a more silvery one.

The painting has a pendant: Relaxing in the Country, also in Valenciennes.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 19 minutes):
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme