# The Musicians [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PATER, Jean Baptiste Joseph]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on panel, 23 x 32 cm ## Commentary In the small fêtte galantes, the present panel and its companion piece of the same size, Picking Roses, elegantly clad figures lounge about in lush landscapes, with seemingly no cares, playing music, picking flowers, and flirting with one another. Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pater's teacher, created this genre and Pater successfully continued the tradition. ## 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 \(The Bathers\)]() - [Mme. de Bouvillon Tempts Fate by Asking Ragotin to Search for a Flea]() - [On the Terrace]() - [Picking Roses]() - [Relaxing in the Country]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()