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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:: 21864
Pilgrimage to Cythera (mk08)
c.1718/19
Oil on canvas
129x194cm
Berlin,Staaliche Museen zu Berlin,
Schlob Charlottenburg
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Painting ID:: 21866
Gills (mk08)
1721
Oil on canvas
184x149cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 21867
The Indiscretion (mk08)
1717
Oil on canvas
50x41cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 21870
Fetes Venetiennes (mk08)
1719
Oil on canvas,
56x46cm
Edinburgh,National Gallery of Scotland
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Painting ID:: 29365
An Embarrassing Proposal
mk65
ca.1716
Oil on canvas
25 1/2x33"
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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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