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Six women, four men, two children, and a dog sit or stand in a loose line close to us in a misty forest setting in this horizontal landscape painting. Painted in muted and hazy tones of mossy green and earthy brown, a copse of trees takes up the left two-thirds of the composition. A fountain or sculpture about twice the height of the people nestles in the copse. On it a mostly nude woman and child sit next to an object, perhaps a fish or urn, on an arched structure lined with sweeping, curving sides. The people all have pale skin, rosy cheeks, blond or brown hair, and delicate features. The…

Fête Champêtre

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

c. 1730 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Samuel H. Kress Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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