Francois louis joseph watteau paintings

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{"Id":628,"Name":"Jean-Antoine Watteau","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EWATTEAU, ANTOINE (1684-1721)\u003C/strong\u003E, French painter, was born in Valenciennes, of humble Flemish origin.

Francois louis joseph watteau paintings

\u003Ca href=\u0022http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03470a.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 class=\u0022link\u0022\u003EComte de Caylus\u003C/a\u003E, his staunch friend of later years, and his first biographer, refers to Watteau\u0027s father as a hard man, strongly disinclined to accede to his son\u0027s wish to become a painter; but other accounts show him in a kinder light as a poor, struggling man, a tiler by trade, who secured for his son the best possible education.

Certain it is that at the age of fourteen Watteau was placed with Gerin, a mediocre Valenciennes painter, with whom he remained until 1702. It is