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What illness caused Antoine Watteau’s early death?

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Watteau, Antoine: Mezzetin — Antoine Watteau Mezzetin, oil on canvas by Antoine Watteau, 1718–20; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 55.2 × 43.2 cm.

Antoine Watteau died at the age of 37 from tuberculosis.1