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Antoine Watteau
(10th Oct, 1684 - 18th Jul, 1721)
Trois portraits de musiciens
Credit:
Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Suzanne Nagy
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
portrait of a man
musician (profession)
glasses (optical)
modern costume
face study
opera singer
en buste
castrato
wig
woman
man
three-quarter right view
portrait (of a group)
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About the artwork
Title:
Trois portraits de musiciens
Periods:
18th century
modern age
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
sanguine
black ink
yellow paper
pastel
blacklead
pen (drawing)
black chalk
beige paper
white highlights
Dimensions:
241 x 277
Inventory number:
INV33355-recto
Detail:
Vers 1720/1721. Sont représentés : Giovanni Antonio Guido dit Antonio, compositeur et violoniste génois (àgauche), Antonio Paccini, "musicien du roi", célèbre castrat mort en 1745 (au centre) et Mademoiselle d'Argenon, cantatrice réputée sous la Régence (à droite)
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Antoine Watteau
Also known as:
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean-Antoine Wataux
Antuan Vatto
Jean-Antoine Vatteau
Jean Antoine Wateau
Jean-Antoine Vateau
Jean-Antoine Wattaux
Jean-Antoine Wattau
Jean-Antoine Watteax
Jean-Antoine Watteaux
Born:
10th Oct, 1684
Dead:
18th Jul, 1721
Country:
royaume de France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Jean-Antoine Watteau
(French:
[ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]
; baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721), better known as
Antoine Watteau
, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical, Rococo. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of
fêtes galantes
, scenes of bucolic and idyllic…
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