JEAN-BAPTISTE FRANQOIS PATER. 1695-1736

33 THE MAYPOLE CELEBRATION

Oil on canvas. 34 X 44 cm. Inv. No 3994 This picture is a companion painting to Fortune-teller (La Disease de bonne aventure) whose whereabouts is unknown. Before it entered The Pushkin Museum, The Maypole Celebration was also believed to have been lost after the auction of 1805 and was known only from the engraving by J.-B. Patas. It is a mature Pater, which may be dated to the early 1730s. A variant was in the M. de Rothschild Collection in Paris. Provenance: 1772 Auction of the E. F. de Choiseul Collection, Paris; 1774 Auction of the Du Barry Col-

lection, Paris; 1805 Auction of the De Saint-Ives Collection, Paris; The A. Likhachov Collection, Kazan; 1948—66 The E. Rode Collection, Moscow; since 1966 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Exhibition: 1970 Moscow, Cat. 58

Bibliography: Recueil d'estampes d'apres les tableaux du cabinet de Monseigneur 1г due de Choiseul par les soins du S. Basan, Paris, 1771, p. 11 (reproduced after Patas's engraving); F. Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris, 1928, p. 79, No 526, ill. 151 (reproduced after Patas's engraving); И. Кузнецова, "Новая картина Музея", Художник, 1969, 7, р. 57

33 THE MAYPOLE CELEBRATION