Jean-Antoine Watteau, French painter (died 1721)

Antoine Watteau

French painter (1684–1721)

Jean-Antoine Watteau 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…