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Birth
1684 (Valenciennes, France)
Death
1721 (Paris, France)
Lived/Active
France/Netherlands
by Rosalba Carriera
Often Known For
rococo aristocratic genre painting, theatre set design
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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.
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