18th-century French school, after Jean Baptiste PATER The Offering of Flowers Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm Bears 20th-century inscriptions on a label on the back of the stretcher: “No. 97578 24 / 36 Mme André Roy” Previous restorations A variation on Pater’s painting from a private collection in the United States (see F. Ingersoll-Smouse, *Pater*, Paris, 1921, no. 56, reproduced in fig. 46).