Watteau Pilgrimage To The Isle Of Cythera

Watteau Pilgrimage To The Isle Of Cythera. It represents an invitation to delights amid the enchantment of nature. Watteau’s first version of the subject.

Pilgrimage to the island of cythera JeanAntoine Watteau
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This is a rococo romance. It represents an invitation to delights amid the enchantment of nature. Little is known about watteau’s early life but he appears to have been working in paris by 1702.

Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage To Cythera, 1717, Oil On Canvas, 4' 3 X 6' 4 1/2 (Louvre, Paris).


The first, somewhat stilted version is dated 1710 and hangs in the stadel institute in frankfurt. Oil on canvas original size: Greek mythology’s island of love is visible in the background, which is populated by innumerable cupids.

People Who Made A Pilgrimage To The “Island Of Love” Did So Filled With Eager Anticipation.


Watteau submitted this work to the royal academy of painting and sculpture as his reception piece in 1717. Who painted this work the departure from the island of cythera? Musée du louvre, paris, france

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Little is known about his early life but he appears to have been working in paris by 1702. In 1717, watteau received the rank of academician for his large painting embarkation for the island of cythera (louvre, paris). He was inspired by fantastical geographical locations as well as from his beloved theater.

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The Painting Is Now In The Louvre In Paris.


1720, red chalk on paper, 22.3 x 33.9 cm oxford, ashmolean museum 2 pilgrimage to cythera and forced emigration départ pour les isles has been identified as after a lost painting, un embarquement des filles, which appeared in the gautier sale of 1759,9 and stylistically, as jacques mathey has pointed out,10. It is one of many studies for watteau's exquisite painting (now in the musée du louvre, paris), which was submitted for the approval of the french royal academy in 1717.it depicts groups of lovers in theatrical costumes about to depart from an idyllic island. It is also known as voyage to cythera and pilgrimage to the isle of cythera.