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Gabriel Huquier
(7th May, 1695 - 11th Jun, 1772)
,
after Antoine Watteau
(10th Oct, 1684 - 18th Jul, 1721)
Guitariste assis
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Adrien Didierjean
Musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes
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Keywords:
singer (man) (profession)
musician (profession)
in action
guitar player
album
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About the artwork
Title:
Guitariste assis
Periods:
18th century
modern age
Techniques:
etching
laid paper
Inventory number:
E86-1-75
Detail:
Tome I Album de Valenciennes
About the author(s)
Author:
Gabriel Huquier
Also known as:
le Père
Born:
7th May, 1695
Dead:
11th Jun, 1772
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
The entrepreneurial printseller
Gabriel Huquier
(1695–1772), established in rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, was a prominent engraver and designer of ornament in an advanced Rococo taste, a pivotal figure in the production of French 18th-century ornamental etchings and engravings who was himself a collector of works of art, whose collections were dispersed at three great auction sales, in Amsterdam, 1761, in Paris, 1771, and after his death, in Paris, 1772. He was working from about 1731 until his…
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Author:
after
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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