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The elegant figures in <em>Pastoral Gathering<\/em> are grouped to suggest the three phases of love: childhood innocence (left), romantic enchantment and courtship (center), and amorous attainment (right). The transitory nature of romance is underscored by the changing autumn leaves and waning afternoon light. This painting may have been begun by Watteau toward the end of his career and finished by Jean-Baptiste Pater, who studied under Watteau and completed some of his unfinished projects.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"48.6 \u00d7 64.5 cm (19 1\/16 \u00d7 25 3\/8 in.); Framed: 74 \u00d7 89.9 \u00d7 9.6 cm (29 1\/8 \u00d7 35 3\/8 \u00d7 3 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":64,"height":48,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":9,"width":89,"height":74,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on panel","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Max and Leola Epstein Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"P[ierre] H\u00e9douin, \u201cWatteau III: Catalogue de son oeuvre,\u201d L\u2019Artiste: Revue de Paris 4th ser., 5 (1845), p. 80, no. 137.\n\n[Gustave Friedrich] Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain\u2026, London, 1857, p. 84.\n\nEdmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019oeuvre peint, dessin\u00e9 et grav\u00e9 d\u2019Antoine Watteau, Paris, 1875, p. 162.\n\nAndr\u00e9 Joubin, \u201cUn Catalogue de vente illustr\u00e9 par Jules Boilly,\u201d Beaux-Arts: Revue d\u2019information artistique 3 (1925), p. 336. \n\nLouis Hourticq et. al., Le Paysage fran\u00e7aise de Poussin \u00e0 Corot \u00e0 l\u2019exposition du Petit Palais (Mai-Juin 1925), Paris, 1926, p. 144, no. P249.\n\nFlorence Ingersoll-Smouse, Pater, Paris, 1928, p. 44, no. 81.\n\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne Adh\u00e9mar, Watteau: Sa Vie-\u2013son oeuvre, Paris, 1950, p. 241, no. 314. AIC 1961, pp. 350-51. \n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84 (1966), p. 203, p. 205, fig. 39. \n\nEttore Camesaca and John Sunderland, The Complete Paintings of Watteau, New York, 1968, p. 128, no. 2\u00b0D.\n\nJohn Ingamells, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Pictures, pt. 3, French before 1815, London, 1989, p. 388, no. 118. \n\nChristopher Wright, The World\u2019s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide, New York, 1991, vol. 1, p. 454, vol. 2, pp. 62, 607.\n\nL[arry] J. F[einberg] in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600-1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1996, pp. 159-69, ill.\n\nLarry Feinberg and Frank Zuccari, \u201cA Rediscovered \u2018F\u00eate champ\u00eatre\u2019 by Watteau in the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Burlington Magazine 139 (1997), pp. 236-47, figs. 2-3, 9-11, 13, 15, 19, 20-21, 23-24.\n\nMartin Eidelberg, \"Watteau at Chicago,\" Burlington Magazine 140 (1998), pp. 268-269.\n\nChristoph Martin Vogtherr, Stiftung Preussische Schl\u00f6sser und G\u00e4rten Berlin-Brandenburg.  Bestandskataloge der Kunstsammlungen, Franz\u00f6sische Gem\u00e4lde I:  Watteau, Pater, Lancret, Lajo\u00fce (Berlin, 2011), pp. 224-26, fig. 1.","exhibition_history":"Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 29, as Pater.\n\nLondon, Bethnal Green Branch of the South Kensington Museum, Painting, Porcelain, Bronzes, Decorative Furniture, and Other Works of Art, Lent for Exhibition\u2026 by Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., M.P., 1872-75, no. 436, as Pater, Pleasure Seekers.\n\nParis, Palais des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Petit Palais), Exposition du paysage fran\u00e7aise de Poussin \u00e1 Corot, 1925, no. 149, as Pater. \n\nChicago, The University of Chicago, Renaissance Society, Max Epstein Memorial Exhibition, 1955, no. 13, as Pater.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 4, as Imitator of Jean Antoine Watteau.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996, no cat.","provenance_text":"Probably Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, Paris, by 1773; probably his sale, Pierre R\u00e9my, Paris, December 20, 22 and 23, 1773, no. 177, as Watteau, \u201cVingt-six figures de pouces de proportions, occup\u00e9es \u00e0 chanter, \u00e0 jouer & \u00e0 se promener dans diff\u00e9rens endroits d\u2019un Parc tr\u00e8s-orn\u00e9 d\u2019arbres. La belle couleur rend ce Tableau un des plus capitaux qui soit connu de ce Ma\u00eetre\u201d (Twenty-six figures, each five pouces in size, are engaged in singing, playing, and promenading in various areas of a park highly ornamented with trees.  The beautiful coloring of the painting makes it one of the finest known by this master) [supported by Gabriel de Saint Aubin\u2019s sketch in the margin of his sale catalogue; see Feinberg in Wise and Warner 1996, fig. 3]; probably Daniel Saint, Paris, by 1845; sold H\u00f4tel des Ventes, Paris, May 4, 1846, no. 57, as Watteau, for Fr 4900, probably to Richard Seymour Conway, fourth marquess of Hertford [Goncourt 1875].  Richard Seymour Conway, fourth marquess of Hertford (d.1870), Paris [Waagen1857, pp. 79, 84]; by descent to Sir Richard Wallace, Bt. (d.1890); at his death to his widow, Lady Wallace (d. 1897); at her death to Sir John E. A. Murray Scott, Bt. (died1912); sold at Christie\u2019s, London, June 27, 1913, no. 134 (ill.), as Pater, to Agnew, London, for 2415 gns. [annotated sales catalogue, Christie\u2019s]; sold, as Pater, to Walter S. M. Burns, Esq. (d. 1930), North Myms Park, Hatfield, 1919 [letter of April 7, 1981 from William Joll, Agnew\u2019s, in curatorial file]; sold Christie\u2019s, London, June 20, 1930, no. 106 (ill.), as Lancret, to Frank T. Sabin, London, for 3045 gns. [annotated catalogue in Ryerson Library, Art Institute]; sold to Max and Leola Epstein, Chicago, 1934 [Art Institute registrar\u2019s receipt]; given to the Art Institute, 1954.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":14,"fiscal_year":1955,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":20.5211,"color":{"h":194,"l":48,"s":6,"percentage":0.01019577855553268,"population":52},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 216","gallery_id":2147483618,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","department_id":"PC-10","artist_id":37236,"artist_title":"Jean Antoine Watteau","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[37236],"artist_titles":["Jean Antoine Watteau"],"category_ids":["PC-10"],"category_titles":["Painting and Sculpture of Europe"],"term_titles":["oil on panel","nature","18th Century","oil painting","oil paint (paint)","women","trees","men","love","leisure","landscapes","landscape","lake","girls","foliage","flowers","festivals","dog","countryside","children","basket","animals","panel painting","painting techniques","painting (image making)","painting","wood (plant material)","plant material","panel (wood)","painting","paint","organ (animal material)","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","french","courting","wealth","leaves","leaf","painting","european painting"],"style_id":"TM-13379","style_title":"18th Century","alt_style_ids":[],"style_ids":["TM-13379"],"style_titles":["18th Century"],"classification_id":"TM-80","classification_title":"oil on panel","alt_classification_ids":["TM-10387","TM-78","TM-14976","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_ids":["TM-80","TM-10387","TM-78","TM-14976","TM-9","TM-54"],"classification_titles":["oil on panel","paint","oil paintings (visual works)","french","painting","european painting"],"subject_id":"TM-12261","alt_subject_ids":["TM-8735","TM-11205","TM-10121","TM-12167","TM-10094","TM-8657","TM-14145","TM-14517","TM-8851","TM-11206","TM-10482","TM-12248","TM-14335","TM-12243","TM-10118","TM-15693","TM-12218","TM-14396","TM-13455","TM-15416","TM-15233"],"subject_ids":["TM-12261","TM-8735","TM-11205","TM-10121","TM-12167","TM-10094","TM-8657","TM-14145","TM-14517","TM-8851","TM-11206","TM-10482","TM-12248","TM-14335","TM-12243","TM-10118","TM-15693","TM-12218","TM-14396","TM-13455","TM-15416","TM-15233"],"subject_titles":["nature","women","trees","men","love","leisure","landscapes","landscape","lake","girls","foliage","flowers","festivals","dog","countryside","children","basket","animals","courting","wealth","leaves","leaf"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-2431","TM-3478","TM-3644","TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3651"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-2431","TM-3478","TM-3644","TM-13502","TM-2577","TM-3651"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","wood (plant material)","plant material","panel (wood)","painting","paint","organ (animal material)"],"technique_id":"TM-4273","alt_technique_ids":["TM-3975","TM-3971","TM-3891","TM-14210"],"technique_ids":["TM-4273","TM-3975","TM-3971","TM-3891","TM-14210"],"technique_titles":["oil painting","panel painting","painting techniques","painting (image making)","painting"],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"f6eddea6-5789-b6f9-315c-50a08a7c4adc","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1954.295"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["F\u00eate champ\u00eatre (Pastoral Gathering)"],"weight":5958,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-04-15T12:00:57-05:00","updated_at":"2026-08-06T12:09:10-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-06T05:53:03-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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