Antoine Watteau, Two Skeletons Carrying a Garland, detail, c. 1706 - 1708, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
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L'exposition #RevoirWatteau @museelouvre.bsky.social met à l'honneur "le Pierrot" (1719), chef-d'œuvre restauré du peintre #AntoineWatteau. Elle retrace avec beaucoup de réussite le contexte artistique de cette toile dont la postérité se ressent jusque chez #Picasso #Derain #JuanGris... A voir !
#JeanAntoineWatteau was baptized #OnThisDay in 1684; before his death at the age of 36, #AntoineWatteau created some of the greatest #art of the #Rococo; this portrait by Rosalba Carriera was painted in the year of his death (1721)
#JeanAntoineWatteau was baptized #OnThisDay in 1684; before his death at the age of 36, #AntoineWatteau created some of the greatest #art of the #Rococo; this portrait by Rosalba Carriera was painted in the year of his death (1721)
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Jean-Antoine Watteau was born #OnThisDay in 1684, one of France's greatest artists, who created the new genre of 'fêtes galantes' of which "Assemblée Dans un Parc" is one of the greatest exemplars (1721); there's an extraordinary poetry in the autumnal bronze coloration of the foliage & in the elegant folds of the ladies' garments...
#JeanAntoineWatteau was born #OnThisDay in 1684; one of #France's greatest artists, #AntoineWatteau created the new genre of 'fêtes galantes' of which "Assemblée Dans un Parc" is one of the greatest exemplars (1721)
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Pierrot
Secrets d'Histoire (@secretshistoire) tweeted, "🎨 #AntoineWatteau, mort le 18 juillet 1721, était un peintre audacieux, osant réaliser des scènes de la vie quotidienne, avec une forte présence de tous les symboles de l'amour~! Il était l'un des premiers peintres rococo ! ❤🎨 Pierrot, 1718-1719."