Troops on the March, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, ca. 1725

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Troops on the March, ca. 1725, Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 25 3/4 in. (54 x cm), Paintings, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (French, Valenciennes 1695–1736 Paris), A pupil of Watteau, Pater was born to the north at Valenciennes, an area which, having belonged to the Spanish Netherlands, had been restored to France in 1678. The wars of Louis XIV had ravished the northern territories and Pater would have seen the aftermath

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