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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gilles or Pierrot
mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Louvre
c.1718-1719
France
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Gersaint Shop Sign
mk68
Oil on canvas
Berlin,
Charlottenburg Palace
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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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Jean-Antoine Watteau
L'Indifferent
mk86
1717
Oil on panel
26x19cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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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
The Indiscretion
mk86
1717
Oil on canvas
50x41cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gilles
mk86
1721
Oil on canvas
184x149cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Fetes Venetiennes
mk86
1719
Oil on canvas
56x46cm
Edinburgh,National Gallery of Scotoland
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pilgrimage to the island of cythera
mk96
1717
129x194cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The scale of love
mk96
about 1725
51x58cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Wenetian festivitles
mk96
1718
54x45cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Halt During the Chase
mk96
1720
124x187cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pierrot
mk96
1718-1719
184x149cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gersaint-s Shopsign
mk96
1721
182x307cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Sentier de la mi-cote,Louveciennes
mk96
1873
38x46.5cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Snow at louveciennes
mk96
1875
61x50.5cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Regattas at Molesey
mk96
1874
66x91.5cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Canal du loing at moret
mk96
1892
73x93cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The church at Moret,Evening
mk96
1894
81x100cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Harlequin,Pierrot and Scapin
mk126
1716
Oil on canvas
28x24.6cm
Musee Anne de Beaujeu
Moulins
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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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