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Die Serenate
Painting ID:: 68222
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Die Serenate
Technique Oil on panel
Dimensions 24 ?? 17 cm
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Heureux age. Age dor
Painting ID:: 69783
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Heureux age. Age dor
oil on panel painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau, Kimbell Art Museum
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Das Ballvergnugen
Painting ID:: 70049
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Das Ballvergnugen
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 052.7 X 65.7 cm
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Das Urteil des Paris
Painting ID:: 70674
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Das Urteil des Paris
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *47 ?? 31 cm
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Mezzetin
Painting ID:: 70704
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Mezzetin
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *55.2 ?? 43.1 cm
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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 |
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| Stanislaw Chlebowski | Alexander Theobald Van Laer | Carel Jacobus Behr | |
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