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 DAILY PIC (#1627): Yesterday, I finally had a chance to take in the little show called “Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France,” at the Frick Collection in New ...

A rare Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) drawing that has never been on public view and a major Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) masterpiece are hitting the block at Christie’s Paris on March 25. The ...

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Christie’s closed Classics Week with $110,004,491, while Sotheby’s wrapped its Old Masters sales at the Breuer with $94.8 million—numbers that underscore the market’s continued appetite for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If you were asked to picture a scene from 18th-century France, you might summon the image of red-cheeked maidens ...

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 ...