Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Watteau’s images related to music and theater in the Met’s exhibition present us with an idealized, fictional ...

The mysterious painting features a shadowy figure that looks suspiciously like the artist. Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pierrot (1718), detail. Photo: Collection of the Louvre, Paris. Watteau was born in ...

Outdoor celebrations—mythological bacchanals, picnics, and the like—have been a favorite subject of artists for centuries, as you already know if you’ve been keeping up with us. And among the best at ...

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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 ...

Before the J. Paul Getty Museum bought The Italian Comedians (ca. 1720), a painting believed to be the work of Jean-Antoine Watteau, 'The Italian Comedians,' 1720. (Courtesy The J. Paul Getty Museum, ...

Girolamo Mazzola, called Parmigianino, “Head of a Young Man” (ca.1539-40) (all images courtesy the J. Paul Getty Trust) The Getty Museum has announced a major acquisition of master works that will ...

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 ...

The Royal Academy of Arts in London will host the first ever major retrospective of Jean-Antoine Watteau's sketched work to be exhibited in the UK. Click on the image to preview the exhibition online ...

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 ...