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Definition of Jean Antoine Watteau
1. Noun. French painter (1684-1721).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Antoine Watteau
Literary usage of Jean Antoine Watteau
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs (1903)
"... Jean Antoine Watteau was born at Valenciennes' in the year 1684. He was the
son of a master-tiler or carpenter of that city. ..."
2. The World's Progress: With Illustrative Texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian by Delphian Society (1912)
"The great exponent of the frivolous court life was Jean Antoine Watteau—1684-1721.
He has been called the first genuine French artist who ever painted ..."
3. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1887)
"... Mr. Walter Pater, are Jean Antoine Watteau, " prince of court painters," Denys
l'Auxerrois, a legendary French Dionysus, Sebastian Van Storck, ..."
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