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View through the trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat Painting ID:: 462
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Jean-Antoine Watteau View through the trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat 1714-16 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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The Music Party Painting ID:: 466
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Jean-Antoine Watteau The Music Party 1716
Wallace Collection, London
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Pilgrimage to Cythera Painting ID:: 468
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to Cythera 1718
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany
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Actors from a French Theatre (Detail) Painting ID:: 471
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Actors from a French Theatre (Detail) 1712 The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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The Music Lesson Painting ID:: 473
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Jean-Antoine Watteau The Music Lesson 1717 Wallace Collection, London
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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::. | John Maler Collier | Arthur Bowen Davies | Friedrich Nerly | |
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