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Watteau, Jean Antoine

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Watteau, Jean Antoine

(Valenciennes, 1684 - Nogent-sur-Marne, 1721)

Jean-Antoine Watteau (Valenciennes; 10th October 1684 - Nogent-sur-Marne; 18th July 1721) was a French painter. He is one of the great geniuses of the late French Baroque and early Rococo periods. He is credited with creating the genre of the fêtes galantes: scenes of amorous courtship and leisure, endowed with an idyllic, bucolic charm and bathed in an air of theatricality. Some of his best-known themes drew upon the worlds of Italian comedy or ballet.


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