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Autumn (mk05)
Painting ID:: 20673
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Autumn (mk05)
Canvas 19 x 16 1/4''(48 x 41 cm)Bequest of Dr Loiis La Caze 1869 M I
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Jupiter and Antiope (mk05)
Painting ID:: 20674
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Jupiter and Antiope (mk05)
Canvas 29 1/4 x 29 1/2''(74 x 75 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 M I
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Scale of Love (mk08)
Painting ID:: 21842
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Scale of Love (mk08)
c.1717-1719
Oil on canvas.
50.8x59.7cm
London,Natinal Gallery
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The Lover Crowned (mk08)
Painting ID:: 21850
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Lover Crowned (mk08)
c.1771-1773
Oil on canvas
317.8x243.2cm
New York,The Frich Collection
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L'Indifferent (MK08)
Painting ID:: 21863
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
L'Indifferent (MK08)
1717
Oil on panvel
26x19cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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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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