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	Antoine Watteau - LoveToKnow 1911
		ANTOINE WATTEAU (1684-1721), French painter, was born in Valenciennes, of humble Flemish origin.
		Things, however, went badly with his new master, and Watteau, broken down in health and on the verge of starvation, was forced to work in a kind of factory where devotional pictures were turned out in wholesale fashion.
		Watteau now went to live with Crozat, the greatest private art collector of his time, for whom he painted a set of four decorative panels of " The Seasons," one of which, " Summer," is now in the collection of Mr Lionel Phillips.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Antoine_Watteau (1523 words)

	Jean Antoine Watteau
		Young Watteau was a very clever boy, constantly sketching, and as quite a youth was taken to the studio of Gerin, who gave him his first education.
		Watteau was always more or less in poor health, and two years after painting his great picture came over to London to consult Dr. Meade, for whom he painted two important pictures.
		Watteau produced a great number of pictures, exquisite in colour, movement, composition, and in a peculiar sense of flutter which distinguishes his works.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/w/watteau,jean_antoine.html (566 words)

	Antoine Watteau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Watteau was born in the Flemish town of Valenciennes, which had just been annexed by the French king Louis XIV.
		Audran was the curator of the Palais du Luxembourg, where Watteau was able to see the magnificent series of canvases painted by Peter Paul Rubens for Queen Marie de Medici.
		The Watteau dress, a long, sacklike dress with loose pleats hanging from the shoulder at the back, similar to those worn by many of the women is his paintings, is named after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antoine_Watteau (852 words)

	Jean-Antoine Watteau
		Watteau accompanied this man to Paris, where he was called to decorate the Opera House.
		Watteau died in Gersaint’s house on 18 July 1721, in the arms of Gersaint.
		Watteau is now regarded as a forerunner of the Impressionists in his handling of color and study of nature.
	www.angelo.edu /faculty/rprestia/1301/definitions/watteau.htm (760 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Antoine Watteau
		Watteau now went to live with Crozat, the greatest private art collector of his time, for whom he painted a set of four decorative panels of The Seasons, one of which, Summer, is now in the collection of Mr Lionel Phillips.
		Watteaus position in French art is one of unique importance, for, though Flemish by descent, he was more French in his art than any of his French contemporaries.
		Of the greatest importance is the Catalogue razsonn de ltzuvre de Watteau, by E. de Goncourt (1875), and the essay on Watteau by the brothers de Goncourt in LArt du XVIII sicle.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Antoine-Watteau (2377 words)

	Painter/Artist: Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
		Watteau came to Paris at eighteen and for several years was engaged in hack work, copying for art dealers and painting devotional images.
		Watteau was nominated to the Academy in a new category: Fetes galantes.
		Watteau's treatment of Italian comedy ranged from full scenes, such as Love in the Theatre (Berlin), to exquisite portrait studies, such as the Mezzetin (Metropolitan) and Gilles (Louvre).
	www.oldandsold.com /articles04/article1457.shtml (710 words)

	Tallulahs Directory of Classical Master Artists and Nude Images; Antoine Watteau
		Antoine Watteau was considered the greatest French painter of the early 1700's and one of the key figures of
		Watteau's paintings of exquisitely dressed young people idling away their time in a dreamy, romantic, setting goes far back in time but Watteau was the first painter to make the theme his own.
		Antoine Watteau was notorious for his irritable, restless temperament but in spite of this, he had many loyal friends and supporters who recognized his genius.
	www.tallulahs.com /watteau.html (451 words)

	Watteau, Antoine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Watteau was born in Valenciennes, a Flemish town that had come under French rule shortly before his birth.
		Watteau, who had a frail constitution and was often ill, succumbed to tuberculosis and died in Nogent-sur-Marne.
		Among Watteau's favorite subjects were fashionable outdoor gatherings, known as fêtes galantes (French for "scenes of gallantry"), in which elegant court ladies and gentlemen pass their time among trees and shrubbery.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/W/watteau/2.html (419 words)

	Antoine Watteau
		Things, however, went badly with his new master, and Watteau, broken down in health and on the verge of starvation, was forced to work in a kind of factory where devotional pictures were turned out in wholesale fashion.
		Watteau, suspicious of his master's motives, determined to leave him, advancing as excuse his desire to return to Valenciennes.
		Watteau now went to live with Crozat, the greatest private art collector of his time, for whom he painted a set of four decorative panels of "The Seasons." Crozat left at his death some 400 paintings and 19,000 drawings by the masters.
	www.nndb.com /people/884/000084632 (1171 words)

	Biography
		Rubens was one of the prime inspirations for the type of picture with which Watteau is most associated - the fête galante, in which exquisitely dressed young people idle away their time in a dreamy, romantic, pastoral setting.
		Watteau's world is a highly artificial one (apart from scenes of love he took his themes mainly from the theatre), but underlying the frivolity is a feeling of melancholy, reflecting the certain knowledge that all the pleasures of the flesh are transient.
		Watteau was careless in matters of material technique and many of his paintings are in consequence in a poor state of preservation.
	www.wga.hu /bio/w/watteau/antoine/biograph.html (590 words)

	JEAN ANTOINE WATTEAU
		Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was een Franse kunstschilder uit de rococoperiode.
		Jean Antoine Watteau wordt vaak een rococokunstenaar genoemd, maar toch is er nog een diepe ernst, atypisch rococo, die zijn werk uitstraalt.
		Watteau schildert de mythische plaatsen van geluk (zoals Arcadia, Cythera...), maar situeert ze het herkenbare Franse landschap en bevolkt ze met tijdgenoten.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/J/Jean_Antoine_Watteau (256 words)

	Antoine Watteau Summary
		The French painter Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was the catalyst of the Regency period of the rococo style.
		Antoine Watteau was born on Oct. 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, the son of a prosperous roof tiler.
		Watteau was born in the Flemish town of Valenciennes, which had just been annexed by the French king Louis XIV.
	www.bookrags.com /Antoine_Watteau (1908 words)

	Antoine Watteau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He took five years to deliver the required " reception piece ", but it was one ofhis masterpieces, the Pilgrimage to Cythera, also called the Embarkation for Cythera (many commentators,however, note that it depicts in fact a departure from the island of Cythera, the birthplace of Venus, being thus asign of the brevity of love).
		Interestingly, while Watteau's paintings seem to epitomize the aristocratic elegance of the Régence (though he actually lived most of his short life under the oppressive climate of Louis XIV 's later reign), he never had aristocratic patrons.
		The Watteau dress, a long, sacklike dress with loose pleats, similar to those worn by many of the women is hispaintings, is named after him.
	www.therfcc.org /antoine-watteau-119571.html (564 words)

	CGFA- Bio: Antoine Watteau
		(Jean) Antoine Watteau, who was a French painter, is regarded as one of the outstanding artists of the rococo period and as a forerunner of 19th-century impressionism.
		Watteau was born on October 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, a Flemish town that had become French shortly before his birth.
		Among Watteau's favorite subjects were fashionable outdoor gatherings, known as fêtes galantes (French, "scenes of gallantry"), in which elegant court ladies and gentlemen pass their time in pleasant dalliance among trees and shrubbery.
	cgfa.sunsite.dk /watteau/watteau_bio.htm (431 words)

	Jean-Antoine Watteau. Biography. - Olga's Gallery
		October 10, 1684, supposed day of Watteau’s birth, is actually the date he was baptized at the church of St. Jacques in Valenciennes.
		Of the two versions of the Embarkation for Cythera, one in Berlin and one in the Louvre, the earlier one in Louvre was the enrollment picture which Watteau deposited with the Académie in 1717 — a little tardily as he had become an Academician in 1712.
		Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France by Julie Anne Plax.
	www.abcgallery.com /W/watteau/watteaubio.html (1094 words)

	Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The son of a roofer, Watteau was born in 1684 in Valenciennes, a small city in the north that had only been ceded to France from the Spanish Netherlands six years earlier.
		Another of Watteau's dedicated patrons and friends was Jean de Jullienne (1686–1766), who wrote an early biography of the artist and sponsored an unprecedented campaign to record his drawings as etchings, contributing immeasurably to his fame and influence as a draftsman.
		Although Watteau did not invent the technique of trois crayons, or three chalks (Rubens and La Fosse, among others, had used it before him), his name is always linked to the technique for his intuitive mastery of it, melding red, fl, and white to great painterly and coloristic effect.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/watt/hd_watt.htm (1005 words)

	Antoine Watteau - Watteau Oil Paintings, Watteau Biography & Watteau Gallery
		Antoine Watteau was born on October 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, a Flemish town that had become French shortly before his birth.
		Watteau, who had a frail constitution and was often ill, succumbed to tuberculosis.
		Antoine Watteau is regarded as one of the outstanding artists of the rococo period and as a forerunner of 19th-century impressionism.
	www.huntfor.com /absoluteig/Watteau.htm (198 words)

	Jean-Antoine Watteau
		Watteau was born in Valenciennes in October of 1684.
		Watteau showed artistic ability at a young age and it is possible that he first studied under a local artist named Jacques-Albert Gerin.
		Perhaps Watteau was compelled to became a chronicler of everyday life because for him it was natural, and therefore truthful and honest.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/W/watteau.html (1187 words)

	Jean-Antoine Watteau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Watteau's study of sixteenth and seventeenth-century painting and drawing was greatly facilitated by Pierre Crozat who, after 1715, gave him the opportunity to see his fine collection in the rue de Richelieu.
		Twelve etchings from Watteau's figure drawings were published in 1715 (Figures françoises et comiques), and the first engravings after his paintings had appeared by 1719 (P377).
		Watteau's poor health (he died of tuberculosis) was, doubtless, largely responsible for his listless temperament which seems reflected in his often slipshod practice as a painter.
	www.wallacecollection.org /c/w_a/p_w_d/f/a/watteau.htm (450 words)

	Jean-Antoine Watteau - Artist Biography
		Watteau went to Paris in 1702, and from 1704 to 1708, worked with Claude Gillot on sets for the theater, especially the Italian Commedia dell' Arte.
		Audran taught Watteau the delicate art of painting on a white ground, and Watteau studied Rubens' famous Medici series and drew views of the palace gardens.
		In the brief twenty years of his career Watteau's delicate, graceful imagery, haunting nostalgia, harmonious backgrounds, and moving theatricality summed up the poetic freedom and emotional warmth that were the best qualities of the eighteenth century.
	www.vangoghgallery.com /artistbios/Jean_Antoine_Watteau.html (355 words)

	MyStudios -Artist Biographies Sponsored by Barewalls
		Jean Antoine Watteau, one of the most brilliant of French artists, was born in Valenciennes, six years after that Flemish city became a part of France.
		Watteau went to Paris in 1702, and from 1704 to 1708, worked with Claude Gillot on sets for the theater, especially the Italian Commedia dell' Arte.
		Audran taught Watteau the delicate art of painting on a white ground, and Watteau studied Rubens' famous Medici series and drew views of the palace gardens.
	www.mystudios.com /bios/Jean_Antoine_Watteau.html (358 words)

	WebMuseum: Watteau, Jean-Antoine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jean-Antoine Watteau was born on Oct. 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, France.
		Watteau returned to Paris and in 1715 was befriended by Pierre Crozat, a rich financier and art collector who owned a splendid collection of Flemish and Italian paintings and who admired Watteau's paintings.
		Watteau lived for a time in the residence of Crozat, but after a while he left to live in seclusion.
	www.southern.com /wm/paint/auth/watteau (430 words)

	Watteau
		Watteau is the painter of the joyful life.
		Watteau, The Embarcation for Cythera, 1717, oil on canvas, 129 x 194 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.
		Watteau, Mezzetin 1717-19, oil on canvas, 55.3 x 43.2 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
	www.spanisharts.com /history/rococo/i_rococo_watteau.html (176 words)

	Jean-Antoine Watteau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jean-Antoine Watteau was born on Oct. 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, France.
		Watteau returned to Paris and in 1715 was befriended by Pierre Crozat, a rich financier and art collector who owned a splendid collection of Flemish and Italian paintings and who admired Watteau's paintings.
		Watteau lived for a time in the residence of Crozat, but after a while he left to live in seclusion.
	www.masters-gallery.com /03_Artists/artists/Watteau/index.htm (397 words)

	Antoine Watteau and biography and style and facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Watteau youth was fell in the time of the war of the Spanish succession.
		Watteau discovered it, because for him the Parisian was something strange and wonderful that he observed with the delighted eye of the peasant lad who had just come into a great city.
		Watteau himself was a misshapen, ugly, embittered man. From the time he was a young boy he had received brutal beatings from his drunken father.
	www.artopp.net /watteau.htm (1076 words)

	Antoine Watteau - Wikipedia
		Watteau lernte in Valenciennes beim Maler Jacques-Albert Gérin, bildete sich aber schon damals mehr nach der Natur und den niederländischen Meistern, die auch später für die Ausbildung seines malerischen Stils maßgebend wurden.
		Von diesem ging er zu dem Dekorationsmaler Claude Audran, dem Verwalter der Galerie du Luxembourg, in dessen Auftrag er zahlreiche Wanddekorationen, sogenannte Panneaux, malte, deren geistvolle Kompositionen sich jedoch nur in Nachbildungen durch den Stich erhalten haben.
		Eine große Anzahl von Bildern Watteaus befindet sich auch in englischem Privatbesitz (die hervorragendsten bei Sir Richard Wallace in London).
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antoine_Watteau (640 words)

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