Fête Champêtre

Description This painting was originally attributed to Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater, an artist who specialized in idealized park scenes with amorous couples, known as "fêtes champêtres," a category of painting associated with the early 18th-century master Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Recent research has indicated that it is more likely by Bonaventure de Bar, a follower of Watteau.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
12/15/1936	Treatment	cleaned; varnish removed or reduced; x-ray
3/18/1984	Treatment	cleaned; coated; filled; inpainted; lined; media consolidation; other; re-housed; repaired; surface cleaned; varnish removed or reduced
10/18/1996	Examination	examined for condition
3/18/2000	Examination	examined for condition

Provenance Glaenzer and Co.; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1904 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1904