Antoine Watteau

File:Rosalba Carriera Portrait Antoine Watteau.jpg

Watteau in the last year of his life, by Rosalba Carriera, 1721

Jean-Antoine Watteau (10 October 1684 – 18 July 1721) was a French painter. His brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. It brought back the almost forgotten Baroque idiom, which, in time became known as Rococo. He invented the genre of fêtes galantes: scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, with an air of theatricality. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.

Gallery

• Jean-Antoine Watteau - Pierrot, dit autrefois Gilles.jpg

  Gilles

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  Mezzetin

• Fetes venetiennes

• Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera, 1717, Louvre. It shows a departure from the island of Cythera, the birthplace of Venus, thus symbolizing the brevity of love

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  The Charms of Life

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  Geraint's Shop

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  The Ball

Antoine Watteau Media

• Antoine Watteau - Pleasures of Love - Google Art Project.jpg

  Pleasures of Love (1718–1719)

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  The Feast (or Festival) of Love (1718–1719)

• Antoine Watteau - Seated Woman.jpg

  Seated Woman (1716/1717), drawing by Watteau

• Antoine Watteau - Pierrot Content - WGA25440.jpg

  Pierrot Content, c. 1711–1712, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.

• Capitulaciones de boda y baile campestre (Watteau).jpg

  Marriage Contract and Country Dancing, c. 1711, Prado Museum, Madrid.

• Antoine Watteau - La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat) - WGA25444.jpg

  La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat), c. 1715, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• Antoine Watteau, Le Savoyard et la marmotte (1716).jpg

  Savoyard with a Marmot, c. 1716, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

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  Mezzetino, c. 1717–1720, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Other websites

• Watteau paintings at the Web Gallery of Art