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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:: 70813
Franzosische Komodianten
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *57 x 73 cm
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Painting ID:: 71748
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
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Painting ID:: 71756
Der Jager des Nestes
c. 1710
Oil on canvas
23,17 x 18,7 cm
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Painting ID:: 72479
Die Champs elysses, Detail
ca. 1717(1717)
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 74514
Heureux age
Heureux age! Age d'or (Happy Age! Golden Age), oil on panel painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau
Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas; AP 1981.05
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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: | Charles Napier Hemy | Joseph Heintz | William Clarke Wontner | Georg Melchior Kraus | LOO, Louis Michel van |
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