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(subscription needed). was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of

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and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical,

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. 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

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Early life and training

Jean-Antoine Watteau was born in October 1684 in

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, once an important town in the County of Hainaut which became sequently part of the Burgundian and

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until its secession to France following the Franco-Dutch War. He was the second of four sons born to Jean-Philippe Watteau (1660–1720) and Michelle Lardenois (1653–1727), and was presumed to be of Walloon descent. The Watteaus were a quite well-to-do family, although Jean-Philippe, a roofer in second generation, was said to be given to brawling. Showing an early interest in

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, Jean-Antoine may have been apprenticed to Jacques-Albert Gérin, a local painter, and his first artistic subjects were charlatans selling quack remedies on the streets of Valenciennes. Watteau left for Paris in 1702. After a period spent as a scene-painter, and in poor health, he found employment in a workshop at

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, making copies of popular genre paintings in the Flemish and Dutch tradition; it was in that period that he developed his characteristic sketchlike technique. His drawings attracted the attention of the painter

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, and by 1705 he was employed as an assistant to Gillot, whose work, influenced by those of

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and the

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, represented a reaction against the turgid official art of

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's reign. Als
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'' following the

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departure in 1697), a favorite subject of Gillot's that would become one of Watteau's lifelong passions. After a quarrel with Gillot, Watteau moved to the workshop of Claude Audran III, an

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, under whose influence he began to make drawings admired for their consummate elegance. Audran was the curator of the

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, and from him Watteau acquired his knowledge of decorative art and ornamental design. At the palace, Watteau was able to see the magnificent series of canvases painted by

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for Queen

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. The Flemish painter would become one of his major influences, together with the Venetian masters that he would later study in the collection of his patron and friend, the banker

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. During this period Watteau painted ''The Departing Regiment'', the first picture in his second and more personal manner, showing influence of Rubens, and the first of a long series of camp pictures. He showed the painting to Audran, who made light of it, and advised him not to waste his time and gifts on such subjects. Watteau determined to leave him, advancing as excuse his desire to return to Valenciennes. He found a purchaser, at the modest price of 60

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, in a man called Sirois, the father-in-law of his later friend and patron Edme-François Gersaint, and was thus enabled to return to the home of his childhood. In Valenciennes he painted a number of the small camp-pieces, notably the ''Camp-Fire'', which was again bought by Sirois, the price this time being raised to 200 livres.

Later career

Antoine Watteau - Pleasures of Love - Google Art Project

Antoine Watteau - The Feast of Love - Google Art Project

In 1709, Watteau tried to obtain a one-year stay in

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by winning the

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from the

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, but managed only to get awarded with the second prize. In 1712 he tried again and was persuaded by

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that he had nothing to learn from going to Rome; thanks to Fosse he was accepted as an associate member of the Academy in 1712 and a full member in 1717. He took those five years to deliver the required "

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", but it was one of his masterpieces: the ''Pilgrimage to Cythera'', also called the ''

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''. Watteau then went to live with the collector

, who eventually on his death in 1740 left around 400 paintings and 19,000 drawings by the masters. Thus Watteau was able to spend even more time becoming familiar with the works of Rubens and the Venetian masters. He lacked aristocratic

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s; his buyers were bourgeois such as bankers and dealers. Among his most famous paintings, beside the two versions of the '' Pilgrimage to Cythera,'' one in the

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, the other in the

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, are ''

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'' (long identified as ''"Gilles"''), '' Fêtes venitiennes'', ''Love in the Italian Theater'', ''Love in the French Theater'', ''"Voulez-vous triompher des belles?"'' and ''Mezzetin.'' The subject of his hallmark painting, ''Pierrot'' (''Gilles''), is an actor in a white satin costume who stands isolated from his four companions, staring ahead with an enigmatic expression on his face. Watteau's final masterpiece, the ''Shop-sign of Gersaint'', exits the pastoral forest locale for a mundane urban set of encounters. Painted at Watteau's own insistence, "in eight days, working only in the mornings ... in order to warm up his fingers",. this sign for the shop in Paris of the paintings dealer Edme François Gersaint is effectively the final curtain of Watteau's theatre. It has been compared with ''

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'' as a meditation on art and illusion. The scene is an art gallery where the façade has magically vanished, and the gallery and street in the canvas are fused into one contiguous drama. Watteau alarmed his friends by a carelessness about his future and financial security, as if foreseeing he would not live for long. In fact he had been sickly and physically fragile since childhood. In 1720, he travelled to London, England, to consult Dr.

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, one of the most fashionable physicians of his time and an admirer of Watteau's work. However, London's damp and smoky air offset any benefits of Dr. Mead's wholesome food and medicines. Watteau returned to France, spending six months with Gersaint, and then spent his last few months on the estate of his patron, Abbé Haranger, where he died in 1721, perhaps from tuberculous laryngitis, at the age of 36. The Abbé said Watteau was semi-conscious and mute during his final days, clutching a paint brush and painting imaginary paintings in the air. His nephew, Louis Joseph Watteau, son of Antoine's brother Noël Joseph Watteau (1689–1756), and grand nephew, François-Louis-Joseph Watteau, son of Louis, followed Antoine into painting. Antoine Watteau - Seated Woman

Critical assessment and legacy

Little known during his lifetime beyond a small circle of his devotees, Watteau "was mentioned but seldom in contemporary art criticism and then usually reprovingly". Sir

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once noted that Watteau "created, unwittingly, the concept of the individualistic artist loyal to himself, and himself alone". If his immediate followers, Lancret and Pater, would depict the unabashed frillery of aristocratic romantic pursuits, Watteau in a few masterpieces anticipates an art ''about'' art, the world of art as seen through the eyes of an artist. In contrast to the Rococo whimsicality and licentiousness cultivated by Boucher and Fragonard in the later part of

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's reign, Watteau's theatrical panache is usually tinged with a note of sympathy, wistfulness, and sadness at the transience of love and other earthly delights. Famously, the Victorian essayist

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wrote of Watteau: "He was always a seeker after something in the world, that is there in no satisfying measure, or not at all." Watteau was a prolific draftsman. His drawings, typically executed in ''

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'' technique, were collected and admired even by those, such as count de Caylus or Gersaint, who found fault with his paintings. In 1726 and 1728, Jean de Jullienne published suites of etchings after Watteau's drawings, and in 1735 he published a series of engravings after his paintings, ''The Recueil Jullienne''. The quality of the reproductions, using a mixture of engraving and etching following the practice of the Rubens engravers, varied according to the skill of the people employed by Jullienne, but was often very high. Such a comprehensive record was hitherto unparalleled. This helped disseminate his influence round Europe and into the decorative arts. Watteau's influence on the arts (not only painting, but the decorative arts,

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, film,

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) was more extensive than that of almost any other 18th-century artist. 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 in his paintings, is named after him. According to Konody's critical assessment in the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition, in part, "in his treatment of the landscape background and of the atmospheric surroundings of the figures can be found the germs of

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". His influence on later generations of painters may have been less apparent in France than in England, where

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was among his admirers. A revived vogue for Watteau began in England during the

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, and was later encapsulated by the

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in France (

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having published a in 1875) and the ''

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'' union in Russia. In 1984 Watteau societies were created in Paris, by Jean Ferré, and London, by Dr. Selby Whittingham. A major exhibition in Paris, Washington and Berlin commemorated the 1984 tercentenary of his birth. Since 2000 a Watteau centre has been established at Valenciennes by Professor Chris Rauseo. A catalogue raisonné of Watteau's drawings has been compiled by

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and Louis-Antoine Prat, replacing the one by Sir

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and Jacques Mathey; similar projects on his paintings are undertaken by Alan Wintermute and Martin Eidelberg, respectively.

Gallery

File:Antoine Watteau - Pierrot Content - WGA25440.jpg, ''Pierrot Content'', c. 1711–1712,

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, Madrid. File:Capitulaciones de boda y baile campestre (Watteau).jpg, '' Marriage Contract and Country Dancing'', c. 1711,

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, Madrid. File:Antoine Watteau - La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat) - WGA25444.jpg, ''La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat)'', c. 1715, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston File:Antoine Watteau, Le Savoyard et la marmotte (1716).jpg, '' Savoyard with a Marmot'', c. 1716,

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File:Jean-Antoine Watteau - Mezzetin.JPG, '' Mezzetino'', c. 1717–1720,

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, New York File:Jean-Antoine Watteau - Pierrot, dit autrefois Gilles.jpg, ''

'', c. 1718–1719,

, Paris File:Watteau, Antoine - Quellnymphe - 1708.jpg, ''Quellnymphe'', c. 1718, private collection File:Jean-Antoine Watteau - The Love Song.JPG, ''The Love Song'', c. 1717,

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, London File:Antoine Watteau 012.jpg, '' The Robber of the Sparrow's Nest'', c. 1712, National Galleries of Scotland,

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File:Antoine Watteau - The Dance - WGA25477.jpg, ''The Dance'', c. 1716–1718, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin File:Antoine Watteau 062.jpg, '' Actors of the Comédie-Française'', between 1711–1718,

, Saint Petersburg File:WatteauLes Fetesvenitiennes.jpg, '' Fêtes Vénitiennes'', c. 1718–1719, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh File:Antoine Watteau - The Love Lesson - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Love Lesson'', c. 1716–1717, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm File:Antoine Watteau 001.jpg, ''Les Plaisirs du Bal'', c. 1717,

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, London File:Jean-Antoine Watteau La Surprise, oil on panel.jpg, '' La Surprise'', c. 1718, Getty Center, Los Angeles File:Antoine Watteau 030.jpg, '' La Boudeuse'', c. 1715–1718, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg File:Antoine Watteau - L'imbarco per Citera.jpg, ''Pilgrimage to Cythera'', c. 1718–1719,

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, Berlin File:Antoine Watteau - The Italian Comedians - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Italian Comedians'', c. 1719–1721, National Gallery of Art,

Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top left: the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, United States Capitol, Logan Circle, Jefferson Memorial, White House, Adams Morgan, ...

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L'Enseigne de Gersaint ''L'Enseigne de Gersaint'' () is an oil on canvas painting in the Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, by French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Completed during 1720–21, it is considered to be the last prominent work of Watteau, who died some time ...

'', c. 1720–1721, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin File:Antoine Watteau, Ceres (Summer), c. 1717-1718, NGA 46149.jpg, ''Ceres (Summer)'', c. 1717–1718, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Notes

References

Bibliography

* * * Dacier, Émile; Vuaflart, Albert; Herold, Jacques (1921–1929). ''Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII-e siècle'' (in French). Paris: M. Rousseau. Volume
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repository * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Watteau Society Bulletin, London. * Martin Eidelberg, watteauandhiscircle.org

External links

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Alphabetical list of accepted paintings and copies at A Watteau Abecedariowww.Jean-Antoine-Watteau.org
89 works by Antoine Watteau

* * ttp://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18042561/ Works by Watteau in the collection of the

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*The Watteau Abecedario http://watteau-abecedario.org/default.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Watteau, Antoine 1684 births 1721 deaths People from Valenciennes Rococo painters Prix de Rome for painting 18th-century French painters French male painters People of the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans People of the Ancien Régime Mythological painters 18th-century deaths from tuberculosis Members of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture Tuberculosis deaths in France 18th-century French male artists