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 III
ca. 1740
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
Prints
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(3)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the enchanting world of Antoine Watteau the celebrated French Rococo master, through *L'Oeuvre d'Ant Watteau*, Volume III (ca. 1740). This lavish engraving, part of a monumental posthumous catalog overseen by Watteau's devoted friend and patron, Jean de Jullienne, the artist's original paintings and drawings remarkable fidelity. Produced as "Peintre du Roy" in the Académie Royale de Peinture Sculpture, Watteau's fêtes galantes and intimate figure studies captivated 18th-century Europe, blending theatrical elegance with subtle melancholy. Printed two decades after Watteau's early dea...
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...