"Watteau and Words: A Reading of French Poetry" with Philippe de Montebello will take place in the Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium on November 19.Additionally, a small program of concerts performed in the exhibition's galleries will be planned.The concert program is made possible by Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff.An Audio Guide of commentary and music from the period will be available for rental ($7, $6 for members, and $5 for children under 12).The exhibition and its related programs will be featured on the Museum's website at www.metmuseum.org.Exhibition Dates: September 22 – November 29, 2009Exhibition Location: European Paintings, Gallery 2, 2nd floorPress Preview: Monday, September 21, 10:00 a.m. –noonThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Mar 16, 2012 - Mezzetin, Jean-Antoine Watteau, about 1718–20. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. A solitary, ill-educated, self-taught, largely itinerant figure, he was a supremely gifted painter and draftsman whose surviving works of art are his testament.
INASMUCH AS I find it increasingly more difficult to find exhibitions that I care to spend time at, it is heartening indeed to find two outstanding shows* almost âacross the streetâ from one another. Antoine Watteau at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC and The Frick, NYC by Raymond J. Steiner Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Studies of a Flutist and Two Women, ca. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1717 Red, black, and white chalks on buff laid paper, (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Watteau at The Met & The Frick By RAYMOND J. STEINER You may provide up to 30 emails at a time.You can provide a custom message that will preface the content in the emailThe exhibition is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation.Born in 1684 in Valenciennes in the Hainault (French, but formerly part of the Spanish Netherlands), Jean-Antoine Watteau is widely considered the most important artist in early 18th-century France.
Commedia dell’arte. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) One of the most brilliant and original artists of the eighteenth century, Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) had an impact on the development of Rococo art in France and throughout Europe lasting well beyond his lifetime. Metropolitan Museum of Art Album of Miniatures (9 Albums) (55.2 x 43.2 cm) Only one of Watteau's paintings, The Embarkation for Cythera (1717), was publicly exhibited in his lifetime. Mezzetin, ca. In the Museum's painting, he sits on a stone bench outside a building, playing a guitar and gazing plaintively at an unseen window. He was by turns interfering, devious, and lovelorn. Media in category "Paintings by Watteau in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Mezzetin (ca. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) The Ballet. 01.10.2014 - Antoine Watteau, French, 1684–1721. Munsey Fund, 1934 The Met’s Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies and tells the story of art and global culture through the collection. Although one of the exhibitions closes at the end of this month, there is still time for viewers to take in âWatteau, Music, and Theaterâ at The Met and âWatteau to Degasâ at the Frick in a leisurely one-day visit to New York City â something I did in preparation for this review. The exhibition, in honor of Director Emeritus Philippe de Montebello, explores the place of music and theater in the work of the great early eighteenth-century French painter and draftsman Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Last year it was visited by 5.2 million people. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Separate email addresses with commas. Thank you for registering to ArtFixYour first email will be delivered to your inbox shortly. 102–5, ill., comments that identification of the performers is hypothetical; calls it an example of Watteau's very late style, painted shortly before or after his trip to London. rjs@arttimesjournal.com Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Studies of a Flutist and Two Women, ca. Watteau died in 1720 at the age of 36 after a long illness.While relatively little is known about Watteau, an expanding body of literature relating to Paris opera-ballet, plays, and the less formal and more traditional seasonal théâtres de la foire relates to specific works in the exhibition, and these can now be mined more deeply to examine the artist's life and work.The exhibition will mark the first time the painting La Surprise (private collection) will be seen in a museum. Lost for almost 200 years and presumed to have been destroyed, La Surprise was rediscovered last year in a British country house and later sold at auction.Exquisite drawings by Watteau, including works from the Art Institute of Chicago, The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Massachusetts, and The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, will also be featured.Other lenders to the exhibition are Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Brodick Castle, Isle of Arran (National Trust for Scotland); Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Schloss Sansoucci, Potsdam (Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pictures by Lancret will come from Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation, Dallas; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Alte Pinakothek, Munich.The exhibition will also include works by contemporaries of Watteau, including Nicolas Lancret and Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater, who were influenced by him; fine drawings and engravings by other 18th-century European artists; Meissen porcelain figures depicting theatrical characters; and musical instruments of the era, including a rare Musette de Cour, or early bagpipe, from the Metropolitan Museum's collection.The exhibition is organized by Katharine Baetjer, Curator in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European Paintings, with Georgia J. Cowart, Professor in the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an introduction by Pierre Rosenberg, de l'Académie française, Honorary President-Director of the Musée du Louvre, and an essay by Georgia J. Cowart.