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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:: 20668
L'Indifferent(The Casual Lover) (mk05)
Wood,10 1/4 x 7 1/2''(26 x 19 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869
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Painting ID:: 20669
Assembly in a Park (mk05)
Wood 13 x 18 1/2''(33 x 47 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869
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Painting ID:: 20670
La Finette(The Delicate Musician) (mk05)
Wood 10 1/4 x 7 1/2''(26 x 19 cm)Bequest of Dr.Louis La Caze 1869
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Painting ID:: 20671
The Judgment of Paris (mk05)
Wood 18 1/2 x 12 1/4''(47 x 31 cm)Bequest of Dr.Louis La caze 1869 M I
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Painting ID:: 20672
Le Faux Pas(The Mistaken Advance) (mk05)
Canvas 15 1/2 x 12 1/4''(40 x 31 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 M I
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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: | Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux | Antonio Rotta | John Burr | Kasparus Karsen | Hubert Vos |
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