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Jean-Antoine Watteau

1684 - 1721

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Jean-Antoine Watteau (UK: , US: , French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]; baptised 10 October 1684 – died 18 July 1721) was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical, Rococo. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Antoine Watteau is the 56th most popular painter (up from 101st in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from France (up from 305th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Painter.

Jean-Antoine Watteau is most famous for his paintings of scenes of aristocratic life.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 56 out of 2,023. Before him are Fra Angelico, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Artemisia Gentileschi, Georges Braque, and Camille Pissarro. After him are Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Egon Schiele, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Diego Rivera, and Kazimir Malevich.

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Among people born in 1684, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 2. Before him is Catherine I of Russia. After him are Ludvig Holberg, Maria Barbara Bach, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Francesco Durante, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Gottfried Walther, Jean Astruc, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, and Kimpa Vita. Among people deceased in 1721, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 2. Before him is Pope Clement XI. After him are Alexander Selkirk, Mary Read, Johann Christoph Bach, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Charles Vane, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Edward Colston, and Pierre Daniel Huet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 166 out of 6,770. Before him are Marcel Duchamp (1887), Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Pompidou (1911), Roman Polanski (1933), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), and Godfrey of Bouillon (1060). After him are Pope Martin IV (1220), François Viète (1540), Margaret of Valois (1553), Thérèse of Lisieux (1873), Nicolas Sarkozy (1955), and Henrietta Maria of France (1609).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 15. Before him are Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), and Georges Braque (1882). After him are Jean-François Millet (1814), Théodore Géricault (1791), Henri Rousseau (1844), Alfred Sisley (1839), Gustave Doré (1832), and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796).

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