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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:: 33756
The Indiscretion
mk86
1717
Oil on canvas
50x41cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 33757
Gilles
mk86
1721
Oil on canvas
184x149cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 33758
Fetes Venetiennes
mk86
1719
Oil on canvas
56x46cm
Edinburgh,National Gallery of Scotoland
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Painting ID:: 34726
Pilgrimage to the island of cythera
mk96
1717
129x194cm
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Painting ID:: 34727
The scale of love
mk96
about 1725
51x58cm
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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: | Melchers, Gari Julius | Charles Martin | Marco Marziale | Gustave Dore | Jan Porcellis |
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