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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We don't know much for certain about the 18th-century French artist Antoine Watteau. He was born in 1684, or possibly 1676, in Valenciennes, a provincial town in northern France. He probably ...

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.

Jean-Antoine Watteau’s The Italian Comedians (probably 1720) has Pierrot, dressed in white, at its centre. An earlier work by Watteau, The Departure of the Italian Comedians, describes the ...

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 ...