Jean-Baptiste Pater

Jean -Baptiste Pater ( born December 29, 1695 in Valenciennes, † July 25, 1736 in Paris) was a French painter.

He was a pupil of Antoine Watteau and was admitted to the Académie 1728. His most prominent customer was Frederick the Great, in the style of Turquerie had two pictures of him: Le Sultan au Harem and Le Sultan au Jardin.