Jean-Antoine Watteau
1684-1721
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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 Related Paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau :. | Pilgrimage to Cythera | Die Serenate | Venezianische Feste | Pilgrimage to the island of cythera | L'Indifferent | Related Artists: Charles Carolus - DuranLille 1937 - Paris 1917.
French Academic Painter, 1838-1917. Gaetano previatiItalian Painter, 1852-1920
Italian painter and writer. He was one of the leading exponents of Divisionism, particularly skilled at large-scale decorative schemes, and especially important for his writings on technique and theory. Charles SchreiberFrench
1843-1903
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