The Fair at Bezons, ca. 1733, Oil on canvas, 42 x 56 in. (106. 7 x 142. 2 cm), Paintings, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (French, Valenciennes 1695?1736 Paris), The picture, Pater's masterpiece, dates to the early 1730s, preceding a smaller 1733 version at Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam. The popular fair, held outside Paris each year on the first Sunday in September, inspired a stage play, a ballet-pantomime, and several works of art