L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Volume I
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Book: 25 3/16 × 19 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (64 × 49.5 × 5 cm) Plate: 16 15/16 x 12 5/16 in. (43 x 31.2 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Straus, 1928
Accession Number
28.113(1)
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Nicolas Henry Tardieu · 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...