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Details of The Music-Party
Painting ID:: 30288
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
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c.1718
Cultivated leisure
music and champagne
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Details of The Music-Party
Painting ID:: 30289
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
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A Difficult instrument to play
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Details of The Music-Party
Painting ID:: 30290
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
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Luxury goods from the colonies
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Details of The Music-Party
Painting ID:: 30291
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
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A painter of the avant-garde
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Embarkation from Cythera
Painting ID:: 30602
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Embarkation from Cythera
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Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre
1717
France
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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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| Johann Georg Ziesenis | samuel pepys | Pierre Francois Eugene Giraud | |
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