Musical Trio

Maker Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695 - 1736)

Additional Title(s)

Concert dans un Parc

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Dateca. 1730

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensionscanvas: 18 1/8 × 14 1/2 in. (46 × 36.8 cm.) frame: 24 × 20 1/2 × 3 in. (61 × 52.1 × 7.6 cm.)

SignedSigned in lower right of recto: Pater

InscribedSigned in lower right of recto: Pater

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection, gift of Mildred Browning Green and Honorable Lucius Peyton Green

Status

Not on view

Label TextA lady holds a musical score in her right hand and conducts a flautist and lute player with her left. The idyllic outdoor setting is animated by the tension between the chivalrous trio in the foreground and the crude courtship enacted in the background, a theme Pater borrowed from his master, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) (see cat. 145).

Object number78.20.15