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Gilles or Pierrot Painting ID:: 30603
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Gilles or Pierrot mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre
c.1718-1719
France
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The Gersaint Shop Sign Painting ID:: 30604
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Jean-Antoine Watteau The Gersaint Shop Sign mk68
Oil on canvas
Berlin,
Charlottenburg Palace
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Scale of Love Painting ID:: 33748
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Scale of Love mk86
c.1717-1719
Oil on canvas
50.8x59.7cm
London,National Gallery
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L'Indifferent Painting ID:: 33754
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Jean-Antoine Watteau L'Indifferent mk86
1717
Oil on panel
26x19cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Pilgrimage to Cythera Painting ID:: 33755
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to Cythera mk86
c.1718/19
Oil on canvas
129x194cm
Berlin,Staatliche Museum zu Berlin,Schlob Charlottenburg
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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 |
Related Artists::. | Joseph Farquharson | Josse Lieferinxe | Gaspar Van Wittel | |
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