July and August (part of a set illustrating months of the year)

Antoine Watteau

second quarter 18th century

July and August (part of a set illustrating months of the year) by Antoine Watteau

Medium

Oil on canvas; wood frame, painted yellow and gilded

Dimensions

Overall: 119 × 73 in. (302.3 × 185.4 cm)

Classification

Paintings-Decorative|Paintings|Woodwork

Culture

French

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1922

Accession Number

22.225.1

Tags

GarlandsMenWomenBirds

About the Artist

Antoine Watteau · 16841721

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...

    Send Feedback