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Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684 - 1721)

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..Watteau is perhaps best known for his invention of a new genre: the f锚tes galantes, small pictures of social gatherings of elegant people in parkland settings...

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Royal Academy of Arts

..It will show that the painter鈥檚 utopian vision was directly influenced by these sister arts and will shed light on the subjects of a number of Watteau鈥檚 images...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

..Watteau is particularly renowned for his mastery of the 鈥榯hree chalks鈥 or trois crayons technique, the subtle manipulation and expert balancing of red, black and white...

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Royal Academy of Arts

.. It would be difficult to think of an artist further removed from the muck and misery of war than Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684鈥1721), who is known as a painter of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors...

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The Frick Collection

..When the artist handed his accession painting, it seemed hardly to classify it as a real 'history painting'...

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Teylers Museum

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