Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the ...

One of the most brilliant and original artists of the eighteenth century, Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) had an impact on the development of Rococo art in ...

Watteau was one of the most influential French painters of the early 18th century. He painted numerous scenes with Commedia dell'Arte characters and also ...

Watteau's Soldiers was the first exhibition devoted solely to these captivating pictures, introducing the artist's engagement with military life to a larger ...

Jean Antoine Watteau came from a modest family in the Flemish city of Valenciennes, which had been annexed by France in 1678. He is said to have spent his ...

Antoine Watteau was a French painter who typified the lyrically charming and graceful style of the Rococo. Much of his work reflects the influence of the ...

Oct 10, 1684 - Jul 18, 1721. Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement ...

On 18 July 1721, the French painter Antoine Watteau died in his thirty-seventh year, leaving behind an extensive corpus of drawings and paintings.

Watteau, the son of a roofer, left Valenciennes for Paris about 1702 to work there as a copyist and assistant to Claude Gillot (1673–1722) and Claude III ...

Jean-Antoine Watteau showed a penchant for drawing and painting early in life. At eighteen he was apprenticed to a painter in his native town of Valenciennes.