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Jean-Antoine Watteau (UK: / ˈ w ɒ t oʊ /, US: / w ɒ ˈ t oʊ /, [2] [3] French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]; baptised 10 October 1684 – died 18 July 1721) [4] was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens.
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists. See other articles for information on French literature, French music, French cinema and French culture.
Mezzetino (transl. Mezzetin; French: Mézetin) is an oil-on-canvas painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, by the French Rococo painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Dated within 1717–1720, Mezzetino forms a full-length single-figure composition, depicting the eponymous character in commedia dell'arte .
Pages in category "Paintings by Antoine Watteau" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Actors of the Comédie-Française is an oil painting on a pearwood panel that measures approximately 20 by 25 cm. [3] [4] The painting is a compact half-length composition that shows five figures standing around a high wooden balustrade; most of the figures can be related to extant drawings, either directly or through comparable studies in Watteau's body of work.
This is a list of French painters sorted alphabetically and by the century ... Antoine Watteau (1684 ... French painters; List of French artists – including all ...
Completed during 1720–21, [1] it is considered to be the last prominent work of Watteau, who died some time after. It was painted as a shop sign for the marchand-mercier, or art dealer, Edme François Gersaint. [2] According to Daniel Roche the sign functioned more as an advertisement for the artist than the dealer. [3]
The Embarkation for Cythera ("L'embarquement pour Cythère") is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. It is also known as Voyage to Cythera and Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera. [1] Watteau submitted this work to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece in 1717. [2] The painting is now in the Louvre ...