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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:: 30288
Details of The Music-Party
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c.1718
Cultivated leisure
music and champagne
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Painting ID:: 30289
Details of The Music-Party
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A Difficult instrument to play
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Painting ID:: 30290
Details of The Music-Party
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Luxury goods from the colonies
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Painting ID:: 30291
Details of The Music-Party
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A painter of the avant-garde
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Painting ID:: 30602
Embarkation from Cythera
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Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre
1717
France
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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: | Bartolome Perez | Isaac van Ostade | Luis Eugenio Melendez | Diepraam, Abraham | David Teniers |
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