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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:: 29367
A Capricious Woman
mk65
ca.1718
OIl on canvas
16 1/2x13"
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Painting ID:: 29649
The Love Song
c. 1717
Oil on canvas, 51,3 x 59,4 cm
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Painting ID:: 29651
Portrait of a Gentleman
1715-20
Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
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Painting ID:: 30137
Country Pursuits
mk64
c.1720
Oil on canvas
128x193cm
London,
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Painting ID:: 30179
Gilles
mk64
c.1719
Oil on canvas
185x148cm
Paris,Musee 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: | James Abbott McNeil Whistler | John Vanderlyn | Cristiano Banti | Hendrick Martensz Sorgh | John Masey Wright |
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