Watteau at Work: La Surprise Beeny Emily A.
Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau's death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise.The painting La Surprise by…
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Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Jean Antoine Watteau's death, this publication takes a close, revealing look at his recently rediscovered painting La Surprise.The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself--the fte galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau's day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a
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