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The museum is presenting an exhibition on the importance of art in the work of one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Marcel Proust (Auteuil, 1871 - Paris, 1922), recognised both in ...
And among the best at capturing lavish outdoor frolicking, especially of aristocrats, was the French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau. He not only made a career of it, he practically founded a ...
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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 ...
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’s “The Surprise,” a small but widely celebrated panel painted three years before the artist’s untimely death at 36 in 1721, had gone missing for more than 150 years.
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 ...
K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, London 1931, p. 11 and note 2; p. 26 and note 3: K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue complet de son ...
The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting by the Rococo pioneer Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) that once hung in No.10 Downing Street—marking the second time in recent days that ...
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 ...