Landscape with a Country House
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
3 5/16 x 5 5/8 in. (8.4 x 14.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.524
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
HousesLandscapesTrees
About the Artist
Antoine Watteau|Antoine Watteau|Anonymous, French, 18th century · 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...