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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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View through the trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat
1714-16 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Painting ID:: 462
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View_through_the_trees_in_the_Park_of_Pierre_Crozat
1714-16 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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The Music Party
1716
Wallace Collection, London
Painting ID:: 466
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The_Music_Party
1716
Wallace Collection, London
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Pilgrimage to Cythera
1718
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany
Painting ID:: 468
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Pilgrimage_to_Cythera
1718
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany
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Actors from a French Theatre (Detail)
1712 The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Painting ID:: 471
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Actors_from_a_French_Theatre_(Detail)
1712 The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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The Music Lesson
1717 Wallace Collection, London
Painting ID:: 473
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The_Music_Lesson
1717 Wallace Collection, London
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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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