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Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 - July 18, 1721) was a French painter. 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. 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. www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/antoine_watteau

Mandy and Noel's Rococo Page! Watteau was born in Flanders and lived most of his short life in exile in France. Next:Fetes Galantes: Watteau was the inventor of a new type of art: Fetes Galantes in which lovers sang and danced. His training and early artistic development took place on the outskirts of Paris but he later moved on to study in Luxembourg and was taught by Claude Audran. members.tripod.com /~Rococo/Watteau.html

Jean-Antoine  Watteau  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. 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.3d-dali.com /Artist-Biographies/Jean_Antoine_Watteau.html

Jean Antoine Watteau [An Abridged History of Europe] 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.european-history.com /watteau.html

ART / 4 / 2DAY 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. Watteau is now regarded as a forerunner of the Impressionists in his handling of color and study of nature. www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /art/art4jul/art0718.html

Watteau, Jean-Antoine on Encyclopedia.com Watteau attracted the attention of eminent patrons in his last years, including the comte de Caylus, his biographer, and in 1717 he was made a full member of the Académie royale. Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and the subversive utopia of the opera-ballet. In 1704-8 he studied in the studio of Claude Gillot, an adept painter of scenes of theatrical life, which later became the subject of some of Watteau's finest paintings, such as Love in the Italian Theatre and Love in the French Theatre (both: Berlin). www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Watteau.asp

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. 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. Watteau was born on October 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, a Flemish town that had become French shortly before his birth. sunsite.auc.dk /cgfa/watteau/watteau_bio.htm

Two Studies of Flutist and Head of a Boy (Getty Museum) Jean-Antoine Watteau observed the flutist from life and captured his expression of keen concentration as he blows his breath through pursed lips and the elegant movement of his fingers on the keys of the instrument. Watteau was a master of the technique known in French as trois crayons, a combination of red, black, and white chalks, usually on tinted paper. Here he suggested texture by the play of light on drapery and other details such as the shape of the musician's long, tapered fingers, the sweep of his wavy hair, and the softness of the white lace around his wrists. www.getty.edu /art/collections/objects/o237.html

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jean Antoine Watteau 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. 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 produced a great number of pictures, exquisite in colour, movement, composition, and in a peculiar sense of flutter which distinguishes his works. www.newadvent.org /cathen/15568a.htm

WebMuseum: Watteau, Jean-Antoine Jean-Antoine Watteau was born on Oct. 10, 1684, in Valenciennes, France. The paintings of Watteau and his fellow rococo painters Francois Boucher and Jean-Honore Fragonard fell from favor in the late 1700s. A French rococo artist whose charming and graceful paintings show his interest in theater and ballet, Antoine Watteau is probably best known for his fetes galantes. www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/watteau

ARC :: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) :: Page 1 of 4 WATTEAU, ANTOINE (1684-1721), French painter, was born in Valenciennes, of humble Flemish origin. 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. Of the greatest importance is the Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Watteau, by E. de Goncourt (1875), and the essay on Watteau by the brothers de Goncourt in L'Art du XVIII siècle. www.artrenewal.org /asp/database/art.asp?aid=628

Watteau Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com The Cascade Attributed to Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)Oil on wood; Diameter 8 1/2 in. Watteau Jean Antoine, << Le pélerinage à l'isle de Cithère >>, Paris, musée du Louvre (inv. Mezzetin, probably 1718-20 Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)Oil on canvas; 21 3/4 x 17 in. www.absolutearts.com /masters/w/watteau.html

L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora: Watteau Watteau est un révolutionnaire sans faire de manifestes ni de théories, rien qu'en obéissant à, son génie, il domine l'art de son temps. Watteau n'a rien cherché, il a rencontré; et la rencontre est unique dans l'histoire de l'art français. Watteau a mêlé son âme pensive à ces joies, à ces fêtes dont le chatoyant spectacle était le régal de ses yeux d'artiste. agora.qc.ca /mot.nsf/Dossiers/Watteau

MyStudios- Masterpieces in History Jean-Antoine Watteau Like many of his contemporaries, painter Jean-Antoine Watteau did, too. Be that as it may, the melancholy clown, mocked, ridiculed and despised for his asinine helplessness, was a favourite with Watteau for the sole reason that he was so wretchedly sad, The mournful clown appears several times in his work. Did Watteau paint his Gilles as a portrait of an actor famous for playing the part of Gilles or Pierrot? www.mystudios.com /masters/watteau.html

Jean Antoine Watteau: Head of a Man (37.165.107) Object Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art Jean Antoine Watteau: Head of a Man (37.165.107) In this robust red and black study, Watteau established the angle of the head, the uplifted eyes, and the parted lips that were carried over into the painting. In its emotional force and the melding of the two colors of chalk, this sheet recalls the precedent of Rubens, an artist much admired by Watteau. www.themetmuseum.com /toah/hd/watt/hod_37.165.107.htm

The Frick Collection : Paintings : Watteau : The Portal of Valenciennes Between 1709 and 1714, Watteau painted a series of military scenes, sights that were familiar to him, for his native countryside had long been a battleground. The location depicted in this small painting appears to be outside the fortifications of Valenciennes, Watteau’s birthplace in northern France, where he returned for a visit in 1709. The subtle hues and warm light of this quiet picture, as well as the delicate touch of the artist’s brush in rendering the details of figures, costumes, and setting, look forward to the more familiar scenes of theater and romantic dalliance painted later in Watteau’s career. www.frick.org /html/pntg49f.htm

Jean-Antoine Watteau (Getty Museum) The son of a roof tiler, Jean-Antoine Watteau showed a penchant for drawing and painting early in life. Watteau's subjects, often including figures from the commedia dell'arte, reflect his constant observation of the theater and the studies he often drew during performances. Watteau invented a new type of painting, the fête galante. www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a365-1.html

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Iconography The title of Watteau's painting, "Return to Cythera," clues us to its subject. Iconography is based on written sources, as well as image traditions and conventions, that were historically associated with specific subjects or themes found in paintings and sculpture. Cythera is the mythical island of love, so the people there must be returning from a voyage to that island. www.edtech.vt.edu /edtech/arthistory/icon/iconp2.html

Jean Antoine Watteau: Standing Nude Man Holding Bottles (1972.118.238) Object Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art The New York drawing must have been the earliest, made before Watteau decided to bend the satyr's pouring arm to better suit the oval format. The four large oval paintings of the Seasons commissioned by Pierre Crozat (1665–1740) for his Paris dining room constitute rare examples of mythological subjects in Watteau's oeuvre. This sheet is one of two known studies (the other is in the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London) for the figure of the standing satyr. www.themetmuseum.com /toah/hd/watt/hod_1972.118.238.htm

Antoine Watteau: The Melancholia of Pleasure The French painter Antoine Watteau was fascinated by the world of the sophisticated Italian theater, the commedia dell'arte, and portrayed its characters in some of his major paintings. Watteau, in many canvases now scattered throughout the world, pinpointed the glitter and heartlessness of his times - one reaction to an age of uncertainty. Ironically, in view of the artist's own poverty, he unwittingly created a fashion in high society for dressing `à la Watteau' - after the style of characters in his paintings. www.roland-collection.com /rolandcollection/section/9/320.htm

ART / 4 / 2DAY He and his son François-Louis-Joseph Watteau [18 Aug 1758 – 01 Dec 1823], also a painter in the same style, are known as the ‘Watteau de Lille’ after their main place of work. Louis Watteau was trained in Paris by Jacques Dumont, and at the Académie Royale, where in 1751 he was awarded first prize for painting. On Watteau’s initiative, an annual Salon, at which he himself exhibited regularly, was established in Lille in 1773. www.safran-arts.com /42day/art/art4apr/art0410.html

Jean-Antoine Watteau Online All images and text on this Jean-Antoine Watteau page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted. Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Jean-Antoine Watteau in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French) www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/watteau_jean-antoine.html

ArtLex on Rococo Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) is often referred to as the greatest of the Rococo painters, and his picture of the Embarkation for Cythera demonstrates the elegance of this style. Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717, oil on canvas, 1.29 x 1.94 m, Louvre. The style was characterized by a free, graceful movement; a playful use of www.artlex.com /ArtLex/r/rococo.html

Jean-Antoine Watteau Biografie Watteau war auch ein genialer Zeichner und Radierer. www.weltchronik.de /bio/cethegus/w/watteau.html

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