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Watteau, Music, and Theater
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Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
The Island of Cythera (L'Isle de Cythère) (detail), ca. 1709–10
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (2150)
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Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
The Foursome (La Partie quarrée) (detail), ca. 1714
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum Purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Fund (1977.8)
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Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
The Pleasures of the Ball (Les Plaisirs du bal) (detail)
By Permission of the Trustees of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (156)
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Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
Love in the Italian Theater (L'Amour au théâtre italien) (detail)
Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (470)
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Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
The Surprise (La Surprise) (detail)
Private collection, courtesy of Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd.
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Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721)
Mezzetin (Mezetin) (detail)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Munsey Fund, 1934 (34.138)
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Nicolas Lancret (French, 1690–1743)
Concert in the Oval Salon of Pierre Crozat's House at Montmorency (detail), ca. 1720
Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation, Dallas
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Attributed to Andreas Altomonte (Austrian, 1699–1780) or possibly to Josef Lederer (Czech, act. 1748)
A Masked Ball in Bohemia (detail), ca. 1748
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, 1934 (34.83.2)
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Claude Gillot (French, 1673–1722)
The Scene of the Two Carriages (La Scène des deux carrosses) (detail)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, David T. Schiff and Oscar de la Renta Ltd. Gifts, 2006 (2006.93)
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Charles-Nicolas II Cochin (French, 1715–1790)
The Marquise de Pompadour in a Scene from Acis et Galathée (detail), 1749
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, purchased 2006 (NGC 41953)
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Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780)
Vue de la Foire de Bezons (detail), 1750
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917 (17.3.1122)
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Franz Anton Bustelli (German, d. 1763) Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory, Germany
Harlequine (detail), ca. 1760
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950 (50.211.251)
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Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe (French, 1716–1794) and Henri-Joseph van Blarenberghe (French, 1750–1812)
A Puppet Show, ca. 1779
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.1130) See an image of the work on the lid of the same box.
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Musette de Cour, ca. 1700 France
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 2003 (2003.63a–d)
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