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Jean-Antoine Watteau Peasant Dance oil painting


Peasant Dance
Painting ID::  474
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Peasant Dance
1702

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Gilles as Pierrot oil painting


Gilles as Pierrot
Painting ID::  475
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gilles as Pierrot
1718 Musee du Louvre, Paris

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Jupiter and Antiope oil painting


Jupiter and Antiope
Painting ID::  476
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Jupiter and Antiope
1713 Musee du Louvre, Paris

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Pierrot Content oil painting


Pierrot Content
Painting ID::  477
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pierrot Content


   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Love in the French Theatre oil painting


Love in the French Theatre
Painting ID::  478
Jean-Antoine Watteau
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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