And among the best at capturing lavish outdoor frolicking, especially of aristocrats, was the French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine ... after years of procrastination on the part of Watteau.

It’s typical of the kind of martial subjects Jean-Antoine Watteau was addressing in these early pictures, all made in the years around 1712. I’m no expert on military history, but it seems to ...

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in color and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens). He revitalized the waning ...

Revisiting Watteau’s beloved clown, alone in merry company at the National Gallery of Art Widely regarded as the greatest of 18th-century French painters, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721 ...

Watteau: The DrawingsRoyal Academy of Arts, 12th March-5th June, Tel: 020 7300 8000 Esprit et Vérité: Watteau and His CircleThe Wallace Collection, 12th March-5th June, Tel: 020 7563 9500 The Royal ...

The 18th-century French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau was a master of the fête galante, a genre of painting that depicts small and elegant gatherings in outdoor settings. For British composer and ...

After paying £12.4 million for La Surprise at auction three years ago, the painting’s owner ... “La Surprise is undoubtedly one of Watteau’s most important and pleasing works.

Some of them are more imaginary than others. Watteau's Embarkation for Cythera depicts a super-civilised amorous idyll, constructed out of many layers of artifice. Ladies and gentlemen ...

The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting by the Rococo pioneer Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721 ... in Downing Street for the remaining years of his administration, according ...