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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:: 20673
Autumn (mk05)
Canvas 19 x 16 1/4''(48 x 41 cm)Bequest of Dr Loiis La Caze 1869 M I
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Painting ID:: 20674
Jupiter and Antiope (mk05)
Canvas 29 1/4 x 29 1/2''(74 x 75 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 M I
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Painting ID:: 21842
Scale of Love (mk08)
c.1717-1719
Oil on canvas.
50.8x59.7cm
London,Natinal Gallery
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Painting ID:: 21850
The Lover Crowned (mk08)
c.1771-1773
Oil on canvas
317.8x243.2cm
New York,The Frich Collection
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Painting ID:: 21863
L'Indifferent (MK08)
1717
Oil on panvel
26x19cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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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: | Marstrand, Wilhelm | Walter Granville Smith | SPADA, Lionello | Narjot, Ernest | James Seymour |
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