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Also Known As Jean-Antoine Watteau
Born October 10, 1684 • Valenciennes • France
Died July 18, 1721 (aged 36) • France
Notable Works “Italian Comedians” • “Pilgrimage to Cythera”
Movement / Style Régence style • Rococo • singerie

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Watteau, Antoine: Mezzetin
Watteau, Antoine: study for The Feast of Love
Antoine Watteau: Fêtes Vénitiennes
“Italian Comedians,” oil painting by Antoine Watteau, 1720, showing stock characters of the Comédie-Italienne, including (centre) Pierrot (Italian: Pedrolino) and (right) Columbine (Colombina); in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Plate 1: Study probably for L'Indifferent, black, red, and white chalk on yellowish-gray paper by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). In the Museum
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Etching of a design for a table from his book, Ornamens Inventory, by Jean Berain the Elder, c. 1670–1700.
Jean Berain, the Elder
French designer and painter
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Canaletto: The Doges' Palace and Piazza San Marco, Venice
Canaletto
Italian artist
“Fortune Teller,” oil painting by Piazzetta, 1740; in the Accademia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian painter
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Oil on canvas self-portrait by Edouard Manet, showing the artist in a brown coat and black hat, holding paintbrushes and a palette against a dark background.
Édouard Manet
French painter
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French artist
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Portrait of French artist Georges Seurat with curly hair, full beard, and mustache, wearing a suit and looking slightly to the side.
Georges Seurat
French painter
German artist Max Ernst stands indoors in a casual jacket with one hand on his hip, looking toward the camera, circa 1955 in France.
Max Ernst
German artist
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Jean-Baptiste Debret
French artist
Robert, Hubert: Antiquities of Provence
Hubert Robert
French painter
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
François Clouet
French painter

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