{"title":"Jean Antoine Watteau","description":"\u003cp\u003eJean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical, \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/rococo-neoclassicism\"\u003eRococo\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWatteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eClaude Gillot and Claude Audran III taught him. His work was influenced by \u003ca class=\"artist-bio-link\" href=\"\/collections\/peter-paul-rubens\"\u003ePeter Paul Rubens\u003c\/a\u003e. His best-known works include \u003cem\u003ePierrot\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNymph and Satyr\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Shop Sign of Gersaint\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Embarkation for Cythera\u003c\/em\u003e. He focused on Fête galante.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Jean Antoine Watteau\",\"birthDate\":\"1684-10-10T00:00:00Z\",\"deathDate\":\"1721-07-18T00:00:00Z\",\"nationality\":\"Kingdom of France\",\"jobTitle\":\"painter\",\"description\":\"Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less …\",\"image\":\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/90\/%28Treviso%29_The_painter_Antoine_Watteau_by_Rosalba_Carriera_-_Museo_civico_di_Santa_Caterina.jpg\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antoine_Watteau\",\"https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q183221\"]}\u003c\/script\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0892\/5498\/5993\/collections\/4a96fdebc237110de5d0e47559afc8e8.jpg?v=1778302377","url":"https:\/\/symbolartgallery.com\/collections\/jean-antoine-watteau.oembed","provider":"Symbol Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}