3. Antoine Watteau, Fêtes Venetiennes

Image details

TitleFêtes Vénitiennes

Creator nameWatteau, Jean-Antoine

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1718–1719

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationNational Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/5560

Accession numberNG 439

SubjectsPainting, French--18th centuryGenre painting, FrenchSculpture in art

Related content: Chapters (2) Images (260)

Select a chapter below to view this image within the text.

Chapter II: Fêtes Galantes and Fêtes Publiques

Thomas E. Crow

Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris

In the notarial records of eighteenth-century Paris, by far the most common category of picture in the inventories of all classes is that of devotional images, the larger part of these being simple depictions of Christ, the Virgin, and various saints...

Author

Thomas E. Crow

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.46-74

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00329.3

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23034&redirecttoanchor=81840

Chapter subject tags:Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721Painting, French--18th centuryPainting, RococoArt fairs--French--18th centuryGillot, Claude, 1673-1722Art and society--France--History--18th centuryTheater--France--History--18th centuryAudran, Claude, 1658-1734Decoration and ornament, RococoPrints, French--18th century

1. Reading the Body: Historiography and the Case of the Female Nude

Marcia Pointon

Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting, 1830–1908

In the succeeding chapters of this book I shall be undertaking a series of close analyses of particular images and groups of images of the body. In this first chapter I shall map historiographic and theoretical issues within which the nude in Western art poses itself as problematic...

Author

Marcia Pointon

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.11-34

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22832&redirecttoanchor=81840

Chapter subject tags:Female nude in artObjectification (Social psychology)Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983Berger, JohnArtists' models

Loading Images

Note: Some of the images of artworks presented on this platform were not sourced from the original print publication. However, in order to preserve the scholarly record of the print publication, all original image captions and credit lines have been retained on the platform. Learn more about our image policies.