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Antoine Watteau

Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) was active/lived in France, Netherlands.  Antoine Watteau is known for Rococo aristocratic genre painting, theatre set design.

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

Jean-Antoine Watteau was the most representative painter of the French Rococo* style, an artist beside whom the painterly talents of his contemporaries (like the Venetian Giambattista Tiepolo, and the Frenchmen Francois Boucher and Jean-Honore Fragonard) are measured.  He was born at Valenciennes - the town had only recently been ceded to France, and during his lifetime he was considered a Flemish artist - and his early years are obscure.

He trained under local artists, and arrived in Paris in 1702 as an assistant to one of them, a painter of scenery for the Paris Opera.  This was probably Watteau's first contact with the theatre.  He later became infatuated with it.

Left in Paris by his master, Watteau was forced to produce copies of popular Old Masters* on a semi-production-line basis.  It may have been at this time that he began to paint in his own right, scenes he would have known during his childhood at Vale   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7696 characters.]  Artist bio

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