Portrait of Jean Antoine Watteau

Jean Antoine Watteau Giclée Fine Art Prints 2 of 3

1684-1721

French Rococo Painter

Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) came to Paris at the age of eighteen and worked in the studio of Claude Gillot, famous for his scenes of Italian comedy. He then assisted Claude Audran III in decorating Parisian homes. He was patronized by the financier-collector Pierre Croza and had the opportunity to study his collection of Flemish and Italian drawings. In 1717, he was admitted to the Academy of Painting and Sculpture with the "Pilgrimage to Cythera", as a painter of "gallant feast". Watteau was the creator of this new genre: he painted many elegant, lovely pictures which - amidst verdant scenery - depict characters gathered for dancing, music and gallant encounters (Concert, Lovers' Delight). The painter is carried away by the world of the theatre, that of Gilles, melancholic and tender with his costume in subtle white and pink. Around the actor are clustered his companion characters in the spirit of commedia dell'arte - the Doctor on his donkey, Colombina, Maecenas in a red robe and another, a fourth artist with a hat cut like a cock's comb.

Watteau is in London for a while. In 1720 he took up his abode with his friend Gersin, a dealer in pictures on Notre Dame Bridge. In eight days he created for him the masterpiece - his final curtsy to youth and the fragility of life.

66 Watteau Artworks

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The Spring: Fete Champetre in a Water Garden with Figures in a Boat, n.d. by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13344-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:32.4 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection

La Finette, c.1717 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13334-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:25.5 x 19 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The Two Cousins, c.1716 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13347-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:30 x 36 cm
Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Pastoral Gathering, c.1718/21 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$79.94
SKU: 13353-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:48.6 x 64.5 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

The Singing Lesson (Guitarist and Young Lady with a Music Book), c.1717/19 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13329-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:24.3 x 18.4 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

The Portal of Valenciennes, c.1709/10 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13338-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:32.5 x 40.5 cm
Frick Collection, New York, USA

The Foursome (La Partie Quarree), c.1713 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$79.40
SKU: 2988-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:49.5 x 62.9 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

The Shepherds, n.d. by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$53.30
SKU: 13324-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:unknown
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

The Surprise, n.d. by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13349-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:36.3 x 28.2 cm
Private Collection

Pleasures of the Ball, c.1715/17 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$87.72
SKU: 13328-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:52.6 x 65.4 cm
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Gathering in a Park, c.1712/13 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13352-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:47.2 x 56.9 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Capitulations of Wedding and Rural Dance, c.1711 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$65.92
SKU: 13356-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:47 x 55 cm
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Harlequin and Columbine, c.1716/18 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 2973-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:35.9 x 25.9 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

The Venitian Festival, c.1718/19 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 2979-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:55.9 x 45.7 cm
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Rest, c.1709 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13355-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:32 x 42.5 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

Pastoral Pleasures, c.1716 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13330-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:31 x 44 cm
Musee Conde, Chantilly, France

Pastoral Dance, c.1706/10 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$63.39
SKU: 2977-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:49.5 x 60 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA

The Dance (Iris), c.1719 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13320-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:97 x 116 cm
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

The Harlequin, Emperor of the Moon, c.1712 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$59.75
SKU: 13346-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:65 x 82 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France

Les Champs Elisees, c.1717/18 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 2975-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:33.1 x 42.6 cm
The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

An Embarrasing Proposal, c.1715/16 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$57.22
SKU: 2971-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:65 x 84.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Respite from War, c.172/15 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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SKU: 13340-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:21.5 x 33.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Evening Landscape with Spinner, c.1713/17 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$64.80
SKU: 13354-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:55 x 66 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Love in the Country (Peaceful Love), c.1718/19 by Watteau | Canvas Print
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$53.57
SKU: 13331-WJA
Jean Antoine Watteau
Original Size:56 x 81 cm
Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

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