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 ...

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 ...

Outdoor celebrations—mythological bacchanals, picnics, and the like—have been a favorite subject of artists for centuries, as you already know if you’ve been keeping up with us. And among the best at ...

Including works by the likes of Fragonard, Watteau and Vigée Le Brun, the Veil-Picard collection is one of the finest private holdings of 18th-century French art in the world — and its highlights can ...

In a move that’s both a long-held dream come true and an acquisition with potential for art-world debate, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced Thursday that it has bought “The Italian Comedians,” a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A painting by French master Jean-Antoine Watteau, missing for 160 years, has been found in a private house in England and will go on sale in July priced at three to five million ...

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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 ...

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 ...

VIRGINIANS who turn out next week for the festivities at Richmond’s 20-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will find themselves in an 18th-century garden, strolling past a decorative fountain and ...