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Jean-Antoine Watteau

[French Rococo Era Painter, 1684-1721]

• Relationships: Uncle of Louis-Joseph Watteau (Watteau of Lille).
Studied under Claude Gillot.
The artist's main followers were Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater (Watteau's only student) and Nicolas Lancret.
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12 works by Jean-Antoine Watteau online

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
12 works by Jean-Antoine Watteau

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
11 works by Watteau

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Watteau

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Pilgrimage to Cythera (Embarkation for Cythera), 1717

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Delicate Musician, ca.1717

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Kneeling male nude lifting a drapery, drawing, ca.1715-16

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Eight studies of heads, drawing, ca.1715-16

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Flora, chalk drawing, 1712-17

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Study of a Woman Playing the Guitar, or Holding a Musical Score, drawing, ca.1717-18

Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles, ca.1718-19

Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
13 paintings

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
A total of 6 works by Jean-Antoine Watteau online

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City  

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Jean-Antoine Watteau

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
3 paintings (there are more works in the Flash slideshow "Daily Life Interactive")

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  
Italian Comedians

National Gallery, London, UK
Perfect Harmony
The Scale of Love


Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Study of two pilgrims and a standing woman

Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera

Art Fund for UK Museums
Le Defile

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Study of three male figures, ca.1713-14

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Frere Blaise de Sainte-Marie Donat, ca.1714

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Landscape in a Venetian Manner, ca.1715-16

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Studies of a Flutist and Two Women, chalk, ca.1717

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
12 works by or related to the artist

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
Les Plaisirs du Bal

Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Frick Collection, New York City
The Portal of Valenciennes, 1709-10

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Heureux age! Age d'or (Happy Age! Golden Age)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Trois études de chien et Etude de léopard s'étirant

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  
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Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France (in French)  

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam   NEW!
L'indifférent, chalk drawing, 1716

Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Study of two women, ca.1715

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Seated Young Woman, ca.1716

Prado Museum, Madrid (new website, can be quite slow)
Gathering in a Park, 1712-13

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Trois études d'une dame au chapeau

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection

Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
2 works online

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

The British Museum, London, UK   NEW!

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
The Music Lesson

The Wallace Collection, London, UK
7 paintings online

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
The Gazer (Le Lorgneur), ca.1716

 
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

ImageNETion
Pierrot: Gilles

Olga's Gallery

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
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Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
The Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Antoine Watteau
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Gilles and His Family, ca.1716-18

  
 
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Gilles, c.1718-19
Gilles, c.1718-19


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Les Plaisirs Du Bal
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The Singing Lesson
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A Flutist, Two Women
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Assembly in a Park
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