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Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater
1695-1736
Seated Man
Red chalk on paper.
4 1/4 x 3 11/16 inches (108 x 94 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 93.4
Notes:
Mounted on the same mat as III, 93.1, III, 93.2, and III, 93.3.
Provenance:
Alfred Beurdeley, Paris (Lugt 421); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Associated names:
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721, Formerly attributed to.
Beurdeley, Alfred, 1847-1919, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, III, no. 93, repr. (as "Four studies of soldiers").
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