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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:: 68222
Die Serenate
Technique Oil on panel
Dimensions 24 ?? 17 cm
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Painting ID:: 69783
Heureux age. Age dor
oil on panel painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau, Kimbell Art Museum
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Painting ID:: 70049
Das Ballvergnugen
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 052.7 X 65.7 cm
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Painting ID:: 70674
Das Urteil des Paris
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *47 ?? 31 cm
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Painting ID:: 70704
Mezzetin
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *55.2 ?? 43.1 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
. Related Artists to Jean-Antoine Watteau: | BICCI, Nero di | Peter Monamy | Franz Xaver Kosler | Peter Sheaf Newell | Willem Romeijn |
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