The Bath

between 1730 and 1736

Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater French, 1695-1736

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Bath

Artwork Date between 1730 and 1736

Artist Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater

Life Dates 1695-1736

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 17 3/4 × 14 inches (45.1 × 35.6 cm) Framed: 25 1/4 × 21 5/8 × 4 1/4 inches (64.1 × 54.9 × 10.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 49.463

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Provenance

William, Earl of Lonsdale [d. 1872];
June 13-18, 1887, sold by (Christie's, London, England) Earl of Lonsdale sale [for 285 guineas];
(Colnaghi's, London, England);
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur James (London, England);
(Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, England);
1949-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Roberts, W. Memorials of Christie's. London, 1897, p. 126.

Mireur, H. Dictionnaire des ventes d'art, vol. 5. Paris, 1911, p. 509.

French Art of the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts. London, 1913, pp. 32-33, no. 18, pl. 12.

Wallace Collection, Pictures and Drawings, 14th ec. London, 1920, p. 221, no. 472.

Graves, A. Art Sales, vol. 2. London, 1921, p. 314.

Ingersoll-Smouse, F. Pater. Paris, 1928, p. 61, no. 308 (fig. 84).

Three French Reigns. Exh. cat., 25 Park Lane. London, 1933, no. 438.

Apollo 49, no. 289 (March 1949): p. 62 (cover ill.).

Pictures on Exhibit 12, no. 2 (November 1949): p. 60.

Pallas (International Art and Archeology Bulletin) 13, no. 19 (December 3, 1949): p. 218.

Grigaut, P.L. "An Eighteenth Century Scene by Pater." Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 3 (1949-50): pp. 63-65, (ill.) p. 63.

Art Prices Current, vol. 26. London, 1951, p. 105, no. 4601. [October 15, 1948.]

XVII and XVIII Century French Masters. Exh. cat., McIntosh Memorial Gallery, University of Western Ontario. London, ON, 1953, pl. 9.

Les Fêtes Galantes. Exh. cat., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond, 1956, unpaginated and unnumbered.

Héritage de France. Exh. cat., Montreal Museum of Fine Arts et al. Montreal, 1961, p. 53, no. 57, and p. 127

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p 84.

Cummings, F.J. and C.H. Elam, eds., The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 118 (ill.).

Bonneville, F. de. Le Livre du Bain. Paris, 1997, p. 87, (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, The Bath, between 1730 and 1736, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 49.463.