TY  - BOOK
AU  - Börsch-Supan,Helmut
AU  - Watteau,Antoine
TI  - Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721
T2  - Masters of French art
SN  - 3829032730
AV  - Art/ND553.W4 B64 2000
PY  - 2000///]
CY  - Köln
PB  - Könemann
KW  - Watteau, Antoine,
KW  - Painters
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 139); Mystery of the artist as a man; --Inset: France around 1700; --Gersaint's shop sign; --Early work; --Scenes of military life; --Inset: Theatrical life in Paris; --Passion for the theater; --Embarkation for Cythera; --Inset: Art and fashion; --Fetes galantes; --Draftsman; --Nature, landscape, children, dogs; --Last years and legacy; --Chronology; --Glossary; --Selected bibliography; --Picture credits
N2  - No other artist made such a mark on 18th-century painting north of the Alps as Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). In a creative phase lasting little more than a decade, he created not the large forceful works artists are often remembered for, but rather small-scale and playful pictures full of quiet charm and gentle wit. He was able to exert artistic influence because, living in a period of upheaval and decline at the end of the era of Louis XIV, he had a presentiment of what was to come: a refinement of the mind and sensory perception, the Enlightenment, and with it new ideas of social justice. The developments that led to the French Revolution at the end of the century are already present in embryo beneath the surface merriment of Watteau's painting
ER  -