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Jean-Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
Antoine Watteau Art Locations
He is best known for his invention of a new genre, the fete galante, a small easel painting in which elegant people are depicted in conversation or music-making in a secluded parkland setting (see under FETE CHAMPETRE). His particular originality lies in the generally restrained nature of the amorous exchanges of his characters, which are conveyed as much by glance as by gesture, and in his mingling of figures in contemporary dress with others in theatrical costume, thus blurring references to both time and place.
Watteau work was widely collected during his lifetime and influenced a number of other painters in the decades following his death, especially in France and England. His drawings were particularly admired. Documented facts about Watteau life are notoriously few, though several friends wrote about him after his death (see Champion). Of over two hundred paintings generally accepted as his work
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Painting ID:: 480
Mezzetin
1718-20
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Painting ID:: 482
Love in the Italian Theatre
1714 Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
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Painting ID:: 486
Fetes Venitiennes
1719
The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Painting ID:: 20666
Pierrot also Known as Gilles (mk05)
Canvas 73 x 59''(185 x 150 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 M.I 1121
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Painting ID:: 20667
The Embarkation for Cythera (mk05)
Canvas 51 x 76 1/2''(129 x 194 cm)Reception picture for the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture 1717 Collection of the Academie Royale INV
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
Antoine Watteau Art Locations
He is best known for his invention of a new genre, the fete galante, a small easel painting in which elegant people are depicted in conversation or music-making in a secluded parkland setting (see under FETE CHAMPETRE). His particular originality lies in the generally restrained nature of the amorous exchanges of his characters, which are conveyed as much by glance as by gesture, and in his mingling of figures in contemporary dress with others in theatrical costume, thus blurring references to both time and place.
Watteau work was widely collected during his lifetime and influenced a number of other painters in the decades following his death, especially in France and England. His drawings were particularly admired. Documented facts about Watteau life are notoriously few, though several friends wrote about him after his death (see Champion). Of over two hundred paintings generally accepted as his work
. Related Artists to Jean-Antoine Watteau: | Ernest Laurent | Sir Peter Lely | Prospero Fontana | William Waud | George Edmund Butler |
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