GO HOME
Visit European Gallery



       Prev  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10   Next
 
 
Prev Artist       Next Artist     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Autumn (mk05) oil painting


Autumn (mk05)
Painting ID::  20673
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Autumn (mk05)
Canvas 19 x 16 1/4''(48 x 41 cm)Bequest of Dr Loiis La Caze 1869 M I

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Jupiter and Antiope (mk05) oil painting


Jupiter and Antiope (mk05)
Painting ID::  20674
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

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau Scale of Love (mk08) oil painting


Scale of Love (mk08)
Painting ID::  21842
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Scale of Love (mk08)
c.1717-1719 Oil on canvas. 50.8x59.7cm London,Natinal Gallery

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau The Lover Crowned (mk08) oil painting


The Lover Crowned (mk08)
Painting ID::  21850
Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Lover Crowned (mk08)
c.1771-1773 Oil on canvas 317.8x243.2cm New York,The Frich Collection

   
   
     

Jean-Antoine Watteau L'Indifferent (MK08) oil painting


L'Indifferent (MK08)
Painting ID::  21863
Jean-Antoine Watteau
L'Indifferent (MK08)
1717 Oil on panvel 26x19cm Paris,Musee National du Louvre

   
   
     

       Prev  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10   Next
Prev Artist       Next Artist     

     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

     Related Artists::.
     | Alexandr Ivanov | Pieter de Kempener | Charles Willson Peale |


IntoFineArt Co,.Ltd.