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Jean-Antoine Watteau

1684 - 1721

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Jean-Antoine Watteau (UK: , US: , French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]; baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Antoine Watteau has received more than 391,567 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Jean-Antoine Watteau is the 101st most popular painter (down from 88th in 2019), the 305th most popular biography from France (down from 261st in 2019) and the 29th 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 101 out of 2,023. Before him are Andrei Rublev, Max Ernst, Mark Rothko, Antonio da Correggio, Lisa del Giocondo, and Filippo Lippi. After him are Sofonisba Anguissola, Bronzino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Vittore Carpaccio, Matthias Grünewald, and Claude Lorrain.

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Contemporaries

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, Francesco Durante, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Gottfried Walther, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Robert Maynard, Kimpa Vita, and Edward Vernon. Among people deceased in 1721, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 2. Before him is Pope Clement XI. After him are Alexander Selkirk, Mary Read, Charles Vane, Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Johann Christoph Bach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Pierre Daniel Huet, and Elihu Yale.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 305 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), François Mauriac (1885), Jacques de Molay (1243), Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749), and John I of France (1316). After him are François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), René Goscinny (1926), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Constantine II (316), and Chlothar I (498).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Jean-Antoine Watteau ranks 29. Before him are Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755), Berthe Morisot (1841), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Honoré Daumier (1808), Francis Picabia (1879), and Paul Signac (1863). After him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Claude Lorrain (1600), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), Georges de La Tour (1593), Gustave Moreau (1826), and Jean Fouquet (1420).

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