Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian …

Antoine Watteau (born Oct. 10, 1684, Valenciennes, France—died July 18, 1721, Nogent-sur-Marne) was a French painter who typified the lyrically charming and graceful style of the Rococo.

Jean-Antoine Watteau (French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]; baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721), better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in …

Jean-Antoine Watteau's sensuously painted Rococo canvases conveyed courtly love and ideas of reverie, longing, and utopia.

Oct 1, 2003 · One of the most brilliant and original artists of the eighteenth century, Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) had an impact on the development of Rococo art in France and throughout Europe …

In 1702 Watteau arrived in Paris, first finding employment with a picture dealer on the Pont Notre-Dame specializing in the rote production of portraits and religious paintings.

Oct 21, 2022 · French painter Antoine Watteau is known for the subtle eroticism depicted in the Fête Galante, a painting genre directly inspired by the Commedia dell'Arte. Though his career was short, …

This picture is a fine example of Watteau’s work on an intimate scale. The title The Scale of Love (La Gamme d’Amour) comes from a print of it made several years after his death.

Nov 23, 2021 · The son of a roof tiler, Jean-Antoine Watteau showed a penchant for drawing and painting early in life. At eighteen he was apprenticed to a painter in his native town of Valenciennes.

Jean-Antoine Watteau was a seminal French painter of the Rococo style. Watteau’s lyrical paint handling and graceful compositions are exemplified in his work Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717).