# Mme. de Bouvillon Tempts Fate by Asking Ragotin to Search for a Flea [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PATER, Jean Baptiste Joseph]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 28 x 38 cm ## Commentary Mme. de Bouvillon Tempts Fate by Asking Ragotin to Search for a Flea - Oil on canvas, 28 x 38 cm Schloss Sanssouci, Berlin Pater made fourteen Hogarthian illustrations \(all in Berlin\) of a burlesque tale, Ragotin, by Paul Scarron \(1610-1660\). This Picaresque cycle is full of fun, telling of the amorous adventures and misadventures of its handsome hero. This painting, Mme. de Bouvillon Tempts Fate by Asking Ragotin to Search for a Flea, belongs to this cycle. ## Related artworks - [Concert Champêtre]() - [Concert Champêtre]() - [Conversation Galante]() - [Fête Champêtre]() - [Fête Champêtre]() - [Fête Galante: La Barque de plaisir]() - [Gathering of Actors of the Comédie-Italienne in a Park]() - [Les Baigneuses \(The Bathers\)]() - [On the Terrace]() - [Picking Roses]() - [Relaxing in the Country]() - [Soldiers and Camp Followers Resting from a March]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()