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Wenetian festivitles Painting ID:: 34728
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Wenetian festivitles mk96
1718
54x45cm
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The Halt During the Chase Painting ID:: 34729
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Jean-Antoine Watteau The Halt During the Chase mk96
1720
124x187cm
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Pierrot Painting ID:: 34730
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Pierrot mk96
1718-1719
184x149cm
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Gersaint-s Shopsign Painting ID:: 34731
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Gersaint-s Shopsign mk96
1721
182x307cm
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Sentier de la mi-cote,Louveciennes Painting ID:: 34733
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Sentier de la mi-cote,Louveciennes mk96
1873
38x46.5cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
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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::. | Pierre etienne theodore rousseau | paolo uccello | Pedro Sanchez | |
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