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Watteau — Painter of the fêtes galantes, 1684–1721
Son of a master roofer, in Paris from about 1702, a pupil of Gillot and then Audran, second in the Prix de Rome of 1709, approved by the Académie in 1712 and received five years later, he painted in fifteen years two hundred pictures and thousands of drawings that Crozat, Jullienne and the princes fought over. Ill, he went to London for treatment at the end of 1719, painted on his return L’Enseigne de Gersaint, and died aged thirty-six. (Editorial synthesis)
Watteau was born in October 1684. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Watteau was born in Valenciennes. (source: Larousse)
Watteau died on 18 July 1721. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Watteau died in Nogent-sur-Marne. (source: Larousse)
Recorded work of Watteau: The Pilgrimage to Cythera. (source: Larousse)
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