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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:: 30603
Gilles or Pierrot
mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre
c.1718-1719
France
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Painting ID:: 30604
The Gersaint Shop Sign
mk68
Oil on canvas
Berlin,
Charlottenburg Palace
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Painting ID:: 33748
Scale of Love
mk86
c.1717-1719
Oil on canvas
50.8x59.7cm
London,National Gallery
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Painting ID:: 33754
L'Indifferent
mk86
1717
Oil on panel
26x19cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Painting ID:: 33755
Pilgrimage to Cythera
mk86
c.1718/19
Oil on canvas
129x194cm
Berlin,Staatliche Museum zu Berlin,Schlob Charlottenburg
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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: | Nicolas Froment | Arthur Loureiro | Ivan Vishnyakov | Hippolyte Boulenger | Carel Fabritus |
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