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Jean-Antoine Watteau
View through the trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat
1714-16 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Music Party
1716
Wallace Collection, London
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pilgrimage to Cythera
1718
Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Actors from a French Theatre (Detail)
1712 The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Music Lesson
1717 Wallace Collection, London
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Peasant Dance
1702
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Gilles as Pierrot
1718
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Jupiter and Antiope
1713 Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pierrot Content
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Love in the French Theatre
1714
Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Mezzetin
1718-20
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Love in the Italian Theatre
1714 Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Fetes Venitiennes
1719
The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pierrot also Known as Gilles (mk05)
Canvas 73 x 59''(185 x 150 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 M.I 1121
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Embarkation for Cythera (mk05)
Canvas 51 x 76 1/2''(129 x 194 cm)Reception picture for the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture 1717 Collection of the Academie Royale INV
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
L'Indifferent(The Casual Lover) (mk05)
Wood,10 1/4 x 7 1/2''(26 x 19 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Assembly in a Park (mk05)
Wood 13 x 18 1/2''(33 x 47 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
La Finette(The Delicate Musician) (mk05)
Wood 10 1/4 x 7 1/2''(26 x 19 cm)Bequest of Dr.Louis La Caze 1869
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Judgment of Paris (mk05)
Wood 18 1/2 x 12 1/4''(47 x 31 cm)Bequest of Dr.Louis La caze 1869 M I
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
Le Faux Pas(The Mistaken Advance) (mk05)
Canvas 15 1/2 x 12 1/4''(40 x 31 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 M I
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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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