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THE DAILY PIC (#1627): Yesterday, I finally had a chance to take in the little show called “Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France,” at the Frick Collection in New ...

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A rare Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) drawing that has never been on public view and a major Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) masterpiece are hitting the block at Christie’s Paris on March 25. The ...

Revisiting Watteau’s beloved clown, alone in merry company at the National Gallery of Art Widely regarded as the greatest of 18th-century French painters, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was also ...

The 18th-century French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau was a master of the fête galante, a genre of painting that depicts small and elegant gatherings in outdoor settings. For British composer and ...

Christie’s closed Classics Week with $110,004,491, while Sotheby’s wrapped its Old Masters sales at the Breuer with $94.8 million—numbers that underscore the market’s continued appetite for ...

Today the Watteau train is getting a modern makeover from fashion designers who are putting their stamp on the style. Today the Watteau is getting a modern makeover from fashion designers who are ...

We don't know much for certain about the 18th-century French artist Antoine Watteau. He was born in 1684, or possibly 1676, in Valenciennes, a provincial town in northern France. He probably settled ...