Jean antoine watteau

This is a large exhibition in terms of number of items, but a vast one in terms of scope. It sets out to track the legacy of the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1577 to 1640), one of the most in…

Oil on canvas; 92 x 127 cm. Painter, one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of 19th century naturalism and realism. Hollósy, who came from an Armenian family in Máramarossziget, learnt to paint in Budapest and Munich where he painted "Corn Husking" in 1885, which brought him success in Hungary and abroad. He criticized training at the Academy and founded a private school in 1886 where he gathered young talents around him who were interested in realistic protrayal. He opened the way to…

`Retour de Chasse': Portrait of Marie-Louise Sirois (1698-1725), full-length, with two dogs, a musket, hunting bag and game in a landscape

Detail: Fêtes Vénitiennes is a 1719 painting by Jean Antoine Watteau, now in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, to which it was bequeathed in 1861 by Lady Murray of Henderland, widow of John Murray, Lord Murray. It takes its title from a 1732 engraving of the work by Laurent Cars and is derived from the Venetian styles of dress and dancing shown in the work, the former inspired by the commedia dell'arte. It belongs to the fêtes galantes genre created by Watteau.

Portrait of Watteau by his friend Rosalba Carriera

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The Swing Antoine Watteau i Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Antoine Watteau's sensuously painted Rococo canvases conveyed courtly love and ideas of reverie, longing, and utopia.

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