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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:: 56108
the pilgrimage to cythera
mk247
1717,oli on canvas,51x76.5 in,129.5x194.5 ,louvre,paris,france
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Painting ID:: 56111
gilles
mk247
1718 to 20,oil on canvas,72.5x59 in,1845x149.5 cm,louvre,paris,france
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Painting ID:: 57269
le jugement de paris
mk255 for in the years 1718-1721. 0.47 x 0.21 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Painting ID:: 66057
Das Ballvergnegen
c. 1717
Oil on canvas
52,7 x 65,7 cm
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Painting ID:: 67874
Gilles Detail
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 184 X 149 cm
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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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