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Jean-Antoine Watteau The Indiscretion oil painting


The Indiscretion
Painting ID::  33756
Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Indiscretion
mk86 1717 Oil on canvas 50x41cm Paris,Musee National du Louvre

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Gilles oil painting


Gilles
Painting ID::  33757
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gilles
mk86 1721 Oil on canvas 184x149cm Paris,Musee National du Louvre

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Fetes Venetiennes oil painting


Fetes Venetiennes
Painting ID::  33758
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Fetes Venetiennes
mk86 1719 Oil on canvas 56x46cm Edinburgh,National Gallery of Scotoland

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to the island of cythera oil painting


Pilgrimage to the island of cythera
Painting ID::  34726
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pilgrimage to the island of cythera
mk96 1717 129x194cm

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau The scale of love oil painting


The scale of love
Painting ID::  34727
Jean-Antoine Watteau
The scale of love
mk96 about 1725 51x58cm

   
   
     

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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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