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Savoyard with a Marmot is an oil-on-canvas painting of 1716 by the French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). It depicts an itinerant musician/raconteur from Savoy. The painting depicts his oboe and his trained companion marmot. Savoyards were known to utilize the animals at traveling shows and local fairs, having trained them to ...
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.
Antoine Watteau: The Embarkation for Cythera, Louvre version, 1717 François Boucher: Odalisque, 1745. In France, the Rococo showed its most characteristic face, in a light, gallant and sensual treatment of its privileged themes, the pastoral, followed by allegorical scenes and portraits.
Watteau and the North: Studies in the Dutch and Flemish Baroque Influence on French Rococo Painting. New York, London: Garland. p. 221. OCLC 1075255658. Camesasca, Ettore [in Portuguese] (1971). The Complete Painting of Watteau. Classics of the World's Great Art. Introduction by John Sutherland. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 101; cat. no. 71 ...
La Boudeuse is the modern title [a] given to an oil on canvas painting in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, by the French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). ). Completed in the late 1710s, La Boudeuse depicts a young couple set amidst a park in the foreground, in a rare example of the two-figure landscape composition which is considered one of the best fêtes galantes in ...
The Worried Lover (L'Amante inquiète) [a] is an oil on panel painting in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, by the French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau.Variously dated to c. 1715–1720, the painting was among private collections throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, until it has been acquired by Henri d'Orleans, Duke of Aumale, son of King Louis Philippe I; as part of the Duke of Aumale's ...
Artist: Antoine Watteau: Year: ca. 1714–1721: ... is an oil on canvas painting by the French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau, now in the Hermitage Museum, ...
The Dreamer (La Rêveuse) is an oil on panel painting of c. 1712–1717 in the Art Institute, Chicago, by the French Rococo artist Antoine Watteau.The painting is a single-figure, full-length composition that shows a seated young woman amid a landscape, dressed in somewhat an exotic attire consisting of long red gown with fur garment and white bonnet; it is a recurring subject that is also ...