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L'Indifferent(The Casual Lover) (mk05)
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L'Indifferent(The_Casual_Lover)_(mk05)
Wood,10 1/4 x 7 1/2''(26 x 19 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869
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Assembly in a Park (mk05)
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Assembly_in_a_Park_(mk05)
Wood 13 x 18 1/2''(33 x 47 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869
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La Finette(The Delicate Musician) (mk05)
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La_Finette(The_Delicate_Musician)_(mk05)
Wood 10 1/4 x 7 1/2''(26 x 19 cm)Bequest of Dr.Louis La Caze 1869
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The Judgment of Paris (mk05)
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The_Judgment_of_Paris_(mk05)
Wood 18 1/2 x 12 1/4''(47 x 31 cm)Bequest of Dr.Louis La caze 1869 M I
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Le Faux Pas(The Mistaken Advance) (mk05)
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Le_Faux_Pas(The_Mistaken_Advance)_(mk05)
Canvas 15 1/2 x 12 1/4''(40 x 31 cm)Bequest of Dr Louis La Caze 1869 M I
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Jean-Antoine_Watteau
1684-1721
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He is best known for his invention of a new genre, the fete galante, a small easel painting in which elegant people are depicted in conversation or music-making in a secluded parkland setting (see under FETE CHAMPETRE). His particular originality lies in the generally restrained nature of the amorous exchanges of his characters, which are conveyed as much by glance as by gesture, and in his mingling of figures in contemporary dress with others in theatrical costume, thus blurring references to both time and place.
Watteau work was widely collected during his lifetime and influenced a number of other painters in the decades following his death, especially in France and England. His drawings were particularly admired. Documented facts about Watteau life are notoriously few, though several friends wrote about him after his death (see Champion). Of over two hundred paintings generally accepted as his work
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