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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Embarking for Cythera
mk141
1710
Oil on canvas
43x53cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Seated Persian
mk155
1715
Red Chalk and pierre noire on parchment
30x19cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Mezzetin
mk161
Oil on canvas
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Scale of Love
mk170
1715-1718
Oil on canvas
50.8x59.7cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Museum national the Franzosische Komodie
mk186
around 1716 Berlin foundation, Gemaldegalerie
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
the pilgrimage to cythera
mk247
1717,oli on canvas,51x76.5 in,129.5x194.5 ,louvre,paris,france
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
gilles
mk247
1718 to 20,oil on canvas,72.5x59 in,1845x149.5 cm,louvre,paris,france
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
le jugement de paris
mk255 for in the years 1718-1721. 0.47 x 0.21 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Das Ballvergnegen
c. 1717
Oil on canvas
52,7 x 65,7 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gilles Detail
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 184 X 149 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Die Serenate
Technique Oil on panel
Dimensions 24 ?? 17 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Heureux age. Age dor
oil on panel painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau, Kimbell Art Museum
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Das Ballvergnugen
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 052.7 X 65.7 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Das Urteil des Paris
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *47 ?? 31 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Mezzetin
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *55.2 ?? 43.1 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Franzosische Komodianten
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *57 x 73 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Der Jager des Nestes
c. 1710
Oil on canvas
23,17 x 18,7 cm
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Die Champs elysses, Detail
ca. 1717(1717)
Oil on canvas
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Heureux age
Heureux age! Age d'or (Happy Age! Golden Age), oil on panel painting by Jean-Antoine Watteau
Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas; AP 1981.05
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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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