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Antoine Watteau
(1684 - 1721)
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Lived/Active: France/Netherlands
Known for: rococo aristocratic genre painting, theatre set design
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from Auction House Records.
La Surprise: A couple embracing while a figure dressed as Mezzetin tunes a guitar
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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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