Artist: Jean-antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721)
Nationality: French
Movement: French School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Jean-Antoine Watteau studied under Gérin until his death, when he moved to Paris and worked for scene-painter Métayer. During that time he also worked in a factory that produced cheap religious paintings, until Claude Gillot employed him. After receiving an award in 1709, Watteau was admitted to the Academy and became a full member in 1717. Originally he painted military subjects, but later adopted the popular idyllic subjects.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Cascade Attributed to Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)Oil on wood; Diameter 8 1/2 in.
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Seated Woman with a Fan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The French Comedians, 1720-21 Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)Oil on canvas; 22 1/2 x 28
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Peasant Dance Attributed to Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)Oil on wood; Diameter 8 1/2
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Mezzetin, probably 1718-20 Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)Oil on canvas; 21 3/4 x 17 in.
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Remedy
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Jean Moyreau La partie quarrÈe Engraving 1731
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Jean Moyreau L'Ete (Summer) engraving 18 - 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Two Studies of Flutist and Head of a Boy
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Jean Moyreau The waterfall Etching 17th - 18th century
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Jean Moyreau Feste Bacchique Engraving 17th - 18th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Seated Woman, 1716-1717 Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721)Black, red, and white chalk; 9 1/2 x
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Jean Moyreau La Colation (The Slight Repast) Etching 17th - 18th century
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Jean Antoine Watteau - The Old Savoyard c. 1715 red and black chalk The Art Institute of Chicago French
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FranÁois Boucher Portrait of Antoine Watteau. After a self -portrait by Antoine Watteau. etching 1727
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Jean-Antoine Watteau - The Perfect Accord 1719 oil on panel Los Angeles County Museum of Art French
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Jean-Antoine Watteau - Reclining Nude c. 1713-17 Oil on Panel Norton Simon Museum French
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Jean-Antoine Watteau - The Gazer (Le Lorgneur) c. 1716 oil on panel Virginia Museum of Fine Arts French
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Jean-Antoine Watteau - The Portal of Valenciennes 1709-10 oil on canvas The Frick Collection French
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Jean Antoine Watteau - Fete champetre 1718-21 oil on panel The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Quadrille (La Contredanse) oil on canvas 1716 - 1719
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Jean-Antoine Watteau A Fete in the Garden 17th - 18th century
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Man dressed in a cape 17th - 18th century
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Jean-Antoine Watteau The Fortune Teller oil on walnut panel circa 1710
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Le Lorqneur etching 17th - 18th century
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Scene on the River Bievre 17th - 18th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Formerly attributed to Jean Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721 A Man Playing on the Flute undated
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Head of a Man, ca. 1718 Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684-1721 Nogent-sur-Marne)FrenchRed and black chalk;
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Jean-Antoine Watteau The Foursome (La Partie Quarree) oil on canvas circa 1713
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Antoine-Jean Gros - Count Jean-Antoine Chaptal 1824 oil on fabric Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Group of Comedia del'arte Figures 17th - 18th century
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Children Imitating a Triumphal Procession red chalk circa 1705 - 1710
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Concert champÍtre (Venetian Landscape) Red chalk on laid paper circa 1715
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Profile Head of a Woman black, white and red chalks on cream paper circa 1720
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Jean-Antoine Watteau - Hereux age! Age d'or (Happy Age! Golden Age) c. 1716-20 oil on panel Kimbell Art Museum French
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Study of Two Persian Diplomats black and white chalks over red chalk on beige laid paper circa 1715 - 1720
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Jean …tienne Liotard Le Chat Malade Etching 18th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Two Seated Men
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Study of a Seated Woman
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Jean-Joseph Balechou Portrait Of Jean De Julienne, Holding A Portrait Of Watteau Engraving 18th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
Jean Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721 Three Studies of a Woman and a Study of Her
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Antoine Watteau - Ceres (Summer) 1715-1716 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Antoine Watteau - Italian Comedians c. 1720 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Arthur Pond Prenez des Pilules, Prenez des Pilules 1739
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Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger Le Conteur 18th century
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Etienne Brion or Brillon Le Printemps. engraving 18th century
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Francois-Louis-Joseph-Watteau (Watteau de Lille) The Wagoners drawing: red chalk 18th - 19th century
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Nicolas de Larmessin L'Hiver (Winter) Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Lucian Freud - Drawing after Watteau 1983 ink Arkansas Arts Center British
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Charles Nicolas (père) Cochin, French, 1688-1754 After Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721 Le Bosquet de Bacchus
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Francois-Louis-Joseph-Watteau (Watteau de Lille) Two Seated Soldiers drawing: black chalk 18th - 19th century
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Claude DuBosc Convoy of the Equipage. engraving 17th century
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Claude Dubosc Young man reclining on a bank 18th century
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - Portrait of Antoine Vollon 1873 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery French
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Edme Jeaurat Pierrot Content Line engraving 1728
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Francois-Louis-Joseph-Watteau (Watteau de Lille) Mounted Soldier, from rear drawing: black crayon 18th - 19th century
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Francois-Louis-Joseph-Watteau (Watteau de Lille) Two Standing Figures (man and woman) drawing: black chalk 18th - 19th century
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Francois-Louis-Joseph-Watteau (Watteau de Lille) Conversation between Wayfarer and Woman drawing: counterproof: red chalk 18th - 19th century
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Pierre Alexandre Aveline La Villageoise engraving 17th - 18th century
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Antoine Trouvain Portrait of Jean Jouvenet engraving 1707
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Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger Belle n'ecoutez rien, Arlequin est un traitre, ... etc. 18th century
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Jacques Gabriel Huquier Le ThÈatre Etching 18th - 19th century
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Jacques Gabriel Huquier Le Berceau Etching 18th - 19th century
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Concert Champêtre Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater (French, 1695-1736)Oil on canvas; 20 1/2 x 26 3/4
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Francois-Louis-Joseph-Watteau (Watteau de Lille) Male Figure Being Dragged by a Horse drawing: black crayon 18th - 19th century
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Francois-Louis-Joseph-Watteau (Watteau de Lille) Standing Female Figure, right hand at chin drawing: black chalk 18th - 19th century
Museum of Fine Arts -
After Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721 Fan France, for Spanish market, mid-19th century Paper leaf painted
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Jean Hippolyte Flandrin - Madame Louis Antoine de Cambourg 1846 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Jean Henri Cless Louis Antoine Bougainville 19th century
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Jean Baptist Masse Portrait of Antoine Coypel Engraving 1717
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Jean Joseph Vaudechamp - Antoine Jacques Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville 1833 oil on canvas Louisiana State Museum French
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Jean Antoine Lepine Pocket Watch metal, jewels, enamel & gold 1715 - 1777
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1795 Attributed to Jean Antoine Laurent (French, 1763-1832)Ivory; Octagonal,
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Comte de Caylus (Anne-Claude-Philippe de TubiËres) Artist seated on a stool Etching 17th - 18th century
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Jean Antoine Watteau, French, 1684-1721 View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Jean-Antoine Lepine and Joseph Coteau Title: Astronomical Mantel Timepiece Date: about 1789 Medium: marble,
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Nicolas Lancret End of the Hunt oil on canvas circa 1740
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Nicolas Lancret Breakfast Before the Hunt oil on canvas circa 1740
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Nicolas Lancret The Music Party oil on canvas circa 1740
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Nicolas Lancret The Bathers (Baigneuses) oil on canvas circa 1740
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Nicolas Lancret Brise' Fan oil on ivory mid 18th century
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Baron Antoine Jean Gros The meeting of Napoleon and Francois II after the Battle of Austerlitz, 4 December 1805 etching and engraving 18th - 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Country Dance
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Jean Moyreau L'Ecurie Hollandoise Etching-engraving 1739
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927 Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)Depicted: Paris, FranceGelatin silver print; 36.8 x 28.6
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Aymard-Jean de Nicolay, Premier President de la Chambre des Comptes 1779 marble Kimbell Art Museum French
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Nicolas Lancret The Skater (study for "Winter") red chalk on cream laid paper circa 1735 - 1738
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Jean Moyreau L'Ecuyer du Manege Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Nicolas Lancret Two Magistrates black and red chalks on cream laid paper with brown ink border 17th - 18th century
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Jean Moyreau La diligence Hollandoise Etching-engraving 17th - 18th century
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Pierre-Jean Mariette Cours d*architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole ä ceux de Michel-Ange by C.A. d'Aviler (Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1760) book with engravings 1760
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Antoine-Jean Gros - Dr. Vignardonne 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Jean-Antoine Houdon - Voltaire 1778 marble National Gallery of Art French
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Baron Antoine Jean Gros David Charmant La MÈlancolie De Sa¸l...fifty first plate in the book... Galerie lithographiÈe de son Altesse royale Monseigneur le Duc d* OrlÈans (Paris: Bureau de la Galerie ä [1830?]), vol. 1 Lithograph
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Louis-Antoine-Leon Riesener Landscape pastel on buff paper 19th century
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Nicolas Lancret Les Baigneuses,...(The Bathers)...twenty sixth plate in the book... [Title in Russian and French] Imperatorskaya Ermitazhnaya Galereya ä GalÈrie ImpÈriale de l'Ermitage (Saint Petersburg: Gohier Desfontaines, 1847) Color Li
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Jean Jules Antoine Lecomte de Nouy - Judith 1875 oil on panel Dahesh Museum of Art French
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775), ca. 1810 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780-1867)Oil on canvas; 29 5/8 x
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Francois Jouvenet - Portrait of Antoine Coysevox 1701 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
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Nicolas Lancret Studies of an Actor (Grandval ?) black and red chalks heightened with white chalks on flecked warm gray laid paper, affixed to laid paper mount, tinted gray circa 1739

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (7)
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Frick Collection: Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750
Watteau, who drew constantly throughout his lifetime, is one of the most revered artists of the French School. Watteau coveted his drawings and regarded them as superior to the m...
Frick Collection: The Drawings of François Boucher
By his own admission, Boucher is said to have made as many as ten thousand drawings over the course of a career that spanned nearly five decades. Not only did he make preparatory compositional and figure studies for his paintings, but he also used...
Teylers Museum: A Passion for Collecting
Organized in conjunction with the Fondation Custodia, the exhibition will travel to Paris after its Haarlem showing. It is accompanied by a richly illustrated publication, whose author, Michiel C. Plomp, Assistant Curator of Drawings at the Metrop...
Kimbell Art Museum: Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family
The exhibition will draw upon the collections of The State Hermitage and The State Russian Museums to assemble works of art acquired, sponsored, or commissioned by ...
National Gallery of Art: The Unfinished Print: Works by Rembrandt, Piranesi, Degas, Munch and Others
The exhibition opens in conjunction with Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades and American Naive Paintings, which will be on view during the same period in adjacent galleries. ...
Museum of Fine Art, Houston: Rembrandt to Gainsborough: Masterpieces from England's Dulwich Picture Gallery
Described as Londons most perfect gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery houses a renowned collection of European painting from ...
Haus der Kunst: The Contest Between Painting and Sculpture: From Duerer to Daumier
Painting and sculpture as subjects of themselves have appeared openly in the allegorical personifications of Pictura and Sculptura, but also in the mythological representations of Apelles and the Christian representations of St. Luke painting the ...

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