Olga's Gallery
Jean-Antoine Watteau
(1684-1721)
Biography
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October 10, 1684, supposed day of Watteau’s birth, is actually the date he was baptized at the church of St. Jacques in Valenciennes. He was the son of Jean-Philippe Watteau, master roofer and carpenter, who knew how to read and write, and was officially registered as a bourgeois. All we know about Watteau’s mother is the name: Michele, née Lordenois; of Watteau’s three brothers that they continued his father’s enterprise. It is unknown whether his parents encouraged his artistic vocation. None the less they allowed the boy, on turning fifteen, to get some instruction from Jacques-Albert Gérin, the correct, mediocre official painter of Valenciennes. Read Jean-Antoine Watteau's Full Biography
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Arlecchino Emperor in the Moon. 1708. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France. (Apparently done from a drawing by Claude Gillot). Read Note. 
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Satire on Physicians. 1708-1709. Oil on wood. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.
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The Marriage Contract. 1710-16. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
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The Monkey Sculptor. c.1710. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France.
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The Bird Nester. 1710. Oil on paper glued to canvas and mounted on panel. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
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The Seducer. c.1712. Oil on metal. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes, France.
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La Gamme d'Amour. c.1712. Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London, UK.
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Les Coquettes. c.1712. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Ceres (Summer). 1712. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
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The Serenader. c.1715. Oil on panel. Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
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Récréation Italienne. c.1715. Oil on canvas. Staatliche Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany.
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Récréation Italienne. Detail. c.1715. Oil on canvas. Staatliche Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany.
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Jupiter and Antiope. c.1715. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
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Autumn. c.1715. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Portrait of M. Pater. c.1716. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France.
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Voulez-vous triompher des belles?. c.1716. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London, UK.
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The Savoyard with a Marmot. 1716. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Love in the Italian Theater. 1716. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Love in the Italian Theater. Detail. 1716. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Love in the French Theater. 1716. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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Love in the French Theater. Detail. 1716. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
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An Embarrassing Proposal. c.1716. Oil on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The Recreations of War. c.1716. Oil on copper. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The Hardships of War. c.1716. Oil on copper. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Arlequin, Pierrot and Scapin. c.1716. Oil on canvas. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Moulins, France. (A controversial work, with three replicas in existence. The original seems to be the one identified in the Spencer Collection, Althorp Park.). Read Note.
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Embarkation for Cythera, or The Pilgrimage to Cythera. 1717. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France. Read Note.
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Embarkation for Cythera, or The Pilgrimage to Cythera. Detail. 1717. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Embarkation for Cythera, or The Pilgrimage to Cythera. Detail. 1717. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Sous un Habit de Mezetin. c.1717. Oil on panel. Wallace Collection, London, UK.
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The Adventuress. c.1717. Oil on metal. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Troyes, France.
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L'Indifférent (The Casual Lover). c.1717. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Le Faux Pas (The Mistaken Advance). c.1717. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
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Les Champs-Elysées. c.1717. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London, UK.
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