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Jean-Antoine Watteau

1684–1721

WA-00016045

Valenciennes, France

PaintingRococo

Representation

None documented

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ183221

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1966–1967

Field Verification (3 fields)

1 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
BiographyWikipedia· 88%
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (2)

Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/jean-antoine-watteau
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/jean-antoine-watteau
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Rococo

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (6)

Woman Standing

1726 · etching

Platemark: 32.3 x 21.6 cm (12 11/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Antoine Watteau

1722 · etching and engraving

Sheet: 37.3 x 26.4 cm (14 11/16 x 10 3/8 in.); Platemark: 35.1 x 24.2 cm (13 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Woman on a Swing, Viewed From Behind

1721 · etching

Sheet: 28.6 x 21 cm (11 1/4 x 8 1/4 in.); Platemark: 24.6 x 18 cm (9 11/16 x 7 1/16 in.); Border: 22.4 x 16.6 cm (8 13/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Clothes are Italian

1715 · etching

Image and Plate: 27.5 x 20 cm (10 13/16 x 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30 x 20.9 cm (11 13/16 x 8 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur)

1711 · red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure)

Sheet: 35 x 27.5 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.1 x 27.8 cm (13 13/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Columbine and Harlequin

1710 · etching

Platemark: 51.6 x 32 cm (20 5/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Artwork sources (3)

6 published of 52 catalogued · 52 with image

Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published6 img
+ 2 more sources · 46 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

Columbine and Harlequin
1710 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Antoine Watteau
1722 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Woman Standing
1726 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur)
1711 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Clothes are Italian
1715 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Woman on a Swing, Viewed From Behind
1721 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

21 assets

Studies of a Seated Woman and a Detail of Her Head and Shoulders (1716)

Rijksmuseum

Manskop met baret en een hand aan een gevest (1717 - 1719)

Rijksmuseum

Four Studies of a Woman's Head and Two of a Seated Woman (1705 - 1721)

Rijksmuseum

Two Studies of a Seated Woman (1709 - 1721)

Rijksmuseum

Landschap met vele figuren bij een herberg (1715 - 1840)

Rijksmuseum

Study Sheet with a Girl’s Head, a Hand, and an Arm Holding a Guitar (1705 - 1721)

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum

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Relationships

Movements1

Rococo

Collections2

Art Institute of Chicago Cleveland Museum of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection

New York · 1966