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Watteau
[ wo-toh; French va-toh ]
noun
- Jean An·toine [zhah, n, ah, n, -, twan], 1684–1721, French painter.
Watteau
/ vato; ˈwɒtəʊ /
noun
- WatteauJean-Antoine16841721MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jean-Antoine (ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan). 1684–1721, French painter, esp of fêtes champêtres
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See her companion in shot silk and a dove-colored parasol; in what a graceful Watteau-like attitude she reclines.
But how delicious they are, these French gossips, so long as one is mindful not to think of Watteau!
Watteau acquired something from everyone he studied, and yet resembles none.
Watteau knew nature and loved her, and rendered her in her transparent beauty with the intoxicated eyes of a lover.
Watteau became for French art what, a hundred years before, Rubens had been for Flemish—the deliverer.
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