A Fête Galante with Falconers
Antoine Watteau
c. 1711-1712
Medium
red chalk over graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 18.8 x 34.5 cm (7 3/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Neil and Ivan Phillips
Accession Number
1988.1.1
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau · 1684–1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...