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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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Peasant Dance
1702
Painting ID:: 474
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Peasant_Dance
1702
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Gilles as Pierrot
1718
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 475
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Gilles_as_Pierrot
1718
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Jupiter and Antiope
1713 Musee du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID:: 476
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Jupiter_and_Antiope
1713 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Pierrot Content
Painting ID:: 477
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Pierrot_Content
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Love in the French Theatre
1714
Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
Painting ID:: 478
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Love_in_the_French_Theatre
1714
Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
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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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