NEW YORK—Rococo painter Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) is best known for his “fêtes galantes” (lively, gallant party) scenes. His numerous depictions of the aristocracy enjoying themselves in ...

Including works by the likes of Fragonard, Watteau and Vigée Le Brun, the Veil-Picard collection is one of the finest private holdings of 18th-century French art in the world — and its highlights can ...

K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, London 1931, p. 11 and note 2; p. 26 and note 3: K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue complet de son ...

Jean-Antoine Watteau was formally accepted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1712. All he had to do to confirm the appointment was submit a painting. In the end, this task took him ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1627): Yesterday, I finally had a chance to take in the little show called “Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France,” at the Frick Collection in New ...

Before the J. Paul Getty Museum bought The Italian Comedians (ca. 1720), a painting believed to be the work of Jean-Antoine Watteau, 'The Italian Comedians,' 1720. (Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, ...

23.4 x 18.6 cm. (9.2 x 7.3 in.) R. Huyghe and H. Adhémar, Watteau, sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, 1950, p. 223, under no. 169 (in which the provenance and references are ...

Revisiting Watteau’s beloved clown, alone in merry company at the National Gallery of Art Widely regarded as the greatest of 18th-century French painters, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was also ...

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Watteau, JEAN ANTOINE, French painter, and founder and leader of the school usually known as that of the painters of Les Fetes Galantes, at Valenciennes, 1684, near Paris, 1721. Young Watteau was a ...

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in color and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens). He revitalized the waning ...