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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Autumn (mk05)
Canvas 19 x 16 1/4''(48 x 41 cm)Bequest of Dr Loiis La Caze 1869 M I
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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
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Scale of Love (mk08)
c.1717-1719
Oil on canvas.
50.8x59.7cm
London,Natinal Gallery
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Lover Crowned (mk08)
c.1771-1773
Oil on canvas
317.8x243.2cm
New York,The Frich Collection
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
L'Indifferent (MK08)
1717
Oil on panvel
26x19cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pilgrimage to Cythera (mk08)
c.1718/19
Oil on canvas
129x194cm
Berlin,Staaliche Museen zu Berlin,
Schlob Charlottenburg
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gills (mk08)
1721
Oil on canvas
184x149cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Indiscretion (mk08)
1717
Oil on canvas
50x41cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Fetes Venetiennes (mk08)
1719
Oil on canvas,
56x46cm
Edinburgh,National Gallery of Scotland
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
An Embarrassing Proposal
mk65
ca.1716
Oil on canvas
25 1/2x33"
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
A Capricious Woman
mk65
ca.1718
OIl on canvas
16 1/2x13"
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Love Song
c. 1717
Oil on canvas, 51,3 x 59,4 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Portrait of a Gentleman
1715-20
Oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Country Pursuits
mk64
c.1720
Oil on canvas
128x193cm
London,
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gilles
mk64
c.1719
Oil on canvas
185x148cm
Paris,Musee du Louvre
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
nn05
c.1718
Cultivated leisure
music and champagne
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
nn05
A Difficult instrument to play
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
nn05
Luxury goods from the colonies
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Details of The Music-Party
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A painter of the avant-garde
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Embarkation from Cythera
mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre
1717
France
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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
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