Figures françoises et comiques nouvellement inventées par M. Watteau; Figures de modes dessinées et gravées à l'eau forte par Watteau; a terminées au buin par Thomassin le fils
Dimensions
[12], [8] leaves; Height: 10 1/4 in. (26 cm)
Department
The Libraries
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2008
Accession Number
NE2049.5.W38 W38 1710
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Charles Nicolas Cochin I|Louis Desplaces|Henri Simon Thomassin|Hardy-Mennil · 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...