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accession number: 1938.392
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Dancers in a Pavilion, 1720s. Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695–1736). Oil on canvas; framed: 79.5 x 70 x 10.5 cm (31 5/16 x 27 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.); unframed: 55.3 x 47 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Commodore Louis D. Beaumont 1938.392
title: Dancers in a Pavilion
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creation date: 1720s
creation date earliest: 1720
creation date latest: 1729
current location: 216B French and German
creditline: Gift of Commodore Louis D. Beaumont
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culture: France, 18th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - French 18th Century
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695–1736) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 79.5 x 70 x 10.5 cm (31 5/16 x 27 9/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 55.3 x 47 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Exhibition of the Month: Masterpieces in Miniature
opening date: 1949-06-03T04:00:00
Exhibition of the Month: Masterpieces in Miniature. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 3-August 29, 1949).
title: The Dance in Art
opening date: 1955-05-20T04:00:00
The Dance in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20-August 17, 1955).
title: Masterpieces of Art
opening date: 1962-04-21T05:00:00
Masterpieces of Art. Century 21 Exposition, Seattle, WA (organizer) (April 21-September 4, 1962).
title: Visions of Landscape: East and West
opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00
Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).
title: Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection
opening date: 1989-02-14T05:00:00
Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 14-June 11, 1989).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Ausstellung von Gemälden älterer Miester im Berliner Privatbesitz, Königl Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany (1883).', 'opening_date': None}
* {'description': 'French XVIII-Century Art, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1931).', 'opening_date': '1931-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Three French Reigns, Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, 25 Park Lane, London, England (February 21-April 5, 1933).', 'opening_date': '1933-02-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Masterpieces of Art, New York World's Fair, New York, NY, (May 11-October 28, 1940).", 'opening_date': '1940-05-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'French Painting, 1100-1900, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (October 18-December 2, 1951).', 'opening_date': '1951-10-18T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '18th Century French Painting, Minneapolis Institute of Art, (October 5-November 5, 1954).', 'opening_date': '1954-10-05T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Great French Paintings-An Exhibition in Memory of Chauncey McCormick, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (January 20-February 20, 1955).', 'opening_date': '1955-01-20T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Age of Elegance, The Rococo and Its Effect, Baltimore Museum of Art, (April 25-June 14, 1959).', 'opening_date': '1959-04-25T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Masterpieces of Art, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World's Fair, (April 21-September 4, 1962).", 'opening_date': '1962-04-21T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Frederick the Great (1712-1786), Palace Sans-Souci, Potsdam, Germany
date: probably by 1773
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German Imperial Family
date: Until 1926
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Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), London, England
date: By 1931
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Commodore and Mrs. Louis Dudley Beaumont, (1857-1942), Cap d'Antibes, France, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: -1938
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1938-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Oesterreich, Matthieu. Déscription de tout l'intérieur des deux palais de Sans-Souci, de ceux de Potsdam, et de Charlottenbourg. 1773.
page number: p. 107, no. 543
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Ad. Braun & Cie. Ausstellung von Gemälden älterer Meister im Berliner Privat-Besitz ... in der Königl. Akademie der Künste in Berlin ... 1883. [Dornach i. Els.]: [A. Braun & Cie], 1883.
page number: cat. no. 41
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Seidel, Paul. Französische kunstwerke des XVIII jahrhunderts im besitze seiner majestät des deutschen kaisers und königs von Preussen. 1900.
page number: p. 144, no. 153
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Staley, Edgcumbe. Watteau and His School. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902.
page number: p. 136
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Seidel, Paul, Wilhelm Bode, and Max J. Friedländer. Gemälde alter meister: im besitze Seiner Majestät des deutschen Kaisers und königs von Preussen. Berlin: R. Bong, 1906.
page number: p. 138
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Seidel, Paul. Friedrich der Grosse und die französische Malerei seiner Zeit. Berlin & Leipzig, 1912.
page number: p. 41
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Foerster, C. F. Das Neue Palais bei Potsdam. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1923.
page number: p. 61
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Ingersoll-Smouse, Florence. Pater. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1928.
page number: p. 55, no. 241
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Dimier, Louis. Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle, histoire des vies et catalogue des œuvres. Paris: Les Éditions G. van Oest, 1928.
page number: I, 40, no. 111
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Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, Ludwig Burchard, and Alfred Scharf. Unknown Masterpieces in Public and Private Collections. New York: E. Weyhe, 1930.
page number: I, 77
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Gilman, Margaret E. Fogg Art Museum, Notes. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1931.
page number: 310, fig. 1
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Maurois, André. Three French Reigns: Louis XIV, XV and XVI. [London]: [publisher not identified], 1933.
page number: cat. no 101
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Francis, Henry S. “‘La Danse Dans Un Pavillon’ by Jean Antoine Watteau: Gift of Commodore Louis D. Beaumont.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 2 (1939).
page number: pp. 16-17, illus. p. 14 and cover
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137985
New York World's Fair, Walter Pach, and Christopher Lazare. Catalogue of European & American Paintings, 1500-1900; Introduction and Descriptions by Walter Pach, Biographies and Notes Compiled by Christopher Lazare, with the Assistance of Anne A. Wallis, Marion Haviland and Simonetta De Vries. Masterpieces of Art, New York World's Fair, May to October, 1940. [New York]: Art Aid Corporation, 1940.
page number: p. 145, cat. no. 211
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Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America: A Catalogue Raisonné with Three Hundred Illustrations of Paintings by the Great Masters, Which Have Passed Through the House of Duveen. New York: William Bradford Press, 1941.
page number: no. 239
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 29
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n37
Carnegie Institute. French Painting, 1100-1900. 1951.
page number: cat. no. 77
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Art Institute of Chicago. Great French Paintings: An Exhibition in Memory of Chauncey McCormick ; January 20th Through February 20th. 1955.
page number: cat. no. 39, pl. 39
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 484
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n89
Baltimore Museum of Art. Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effect. Baltimore. Mus. Of Art. Catalogues. 1947-1967. 1959.
page number: p. 44
url:
Century 21 Exposition, and William Mathewson Milliken. Masterpieces of Art: Fine Arts Pavilion, April 21 to September 4, 1962 : Catalogue : Seattle World's Fair, April 21 to October 21, 1962. [Seattle, Wash.]: Century 21 Expositions, 1962.
page number: cat. no. 34, repr. p. 83
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Jaffé, Michael, "The Cleveland Museum of Art: The Figurative Arts of the West ca. 1400-1800," Apollo LXVIII (December 1963).
page number: p. 457
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 132
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n156
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 133
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n157
Ferré, Jean, Raoul Brié, Georges Mathieu, Michel Watteau, and Ismael Torrecilla. Watteau. 1972.
page number: II, pl. 512, and III, 1073, no. p62
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 176
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n196
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 108; Mentioned: p. 109-110
url:
Vogtherr, Christoph Martin, Jens Bartoll, Ursula Baumer, Johann Koller, and Irene Fiedler. Französische Gemälde. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011.
page number: pp. 656-657, Kat# A5
url:
Schwarzer, Marjorie. Riches, Rivals, and Radicals: A History of Museums in the United States. 2020.
page number: Referenced and mentioned; p. 21
url:
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