A rare, unseen Jean-Antoine Watteau drawing and a major Jean-Honoré Fragonard masterpiece are hitting the block at Christie's ...

From Fragonard and Watteau to the Veil-Picard collection, today’s selective auction fervor for the 18th-century style reveals ...

K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau, London 1931, p. 11 and note 2; p. 26 and note 3: K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau, Catalogue complet de son ...

Le 25 mars 2026, Christie's Paris dispersera les trésors du collectionneur Arthur Georges Veil-Picard : une trentaine de ...

23.4 x 18.6 cm. (9.2 x 7.3 in.) R. Huyghe and H. Adhémar, Watteau, sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, 1950, p. 223, under no. 169 (in which the provenance and references are ...

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in color and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens). He revitalized the waning ...

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 ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Jean-Antoine Watteau’s total sales are going up, ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Jean-Antoine Watteau’s total sales are going up, ...

Sixty years ago a good picture by Jean Antoine Watteau cost less than $500. Last week Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum paid some $250,000 for its first Watteau painting. For $250,000 the Metropolitan ...

This etching - with engraving - is a reproduction of Antoine Watteau's famous painting Voulez-vous triompher des belles? (the translation is a rhetorical question, 'Do you want to succeed with ...

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 ...