Pierrot (Watteau) Explained
Pierrot, also retrospectively known as Gilles, is an oil on canvas painting of by the French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Completed in the later phase of Watteau's career, Pierrot measures 184.5 by 149.5 cm, which makes up somewhat unusual case in the artist's body of work. The painting depicts a number of actors portraying commedia dell'arte character types, with one as the titular character set in the foreground.
By the early 19th century, Pierrot belonged to Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon, the first director of the Louvre Museum; it later passed to the Parisian physician Louis La Caze, who bequeathed his sprawling art collection to the Louvre in 1869.[1]
Further reading
- Book: Brookner, Anita. Watteau. registration. Hamlyn. 1985. 1967. Feltham. Colour Library of Art. pp. 8, 16–17, 35; colorpl. 47. 0-600-50156-6. 922565837. Anita Brookner. the Internet Archive.
- Book: Camesasca, Ettore. The Complete Painting of Watteau. Harry N. Abrams. Introduction by John Sutherland. 1971. 0810955253.
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. Classics of the World's Great Art. New York. p. 122; cat. no. 195. loan required. the Internet Archive. 143069.
- Book: Grasselli. Margaret Morgan. Rosenberg. Pierre. Pierre Rosenberg. Paramantier. Nicole. amp. Watteau, 1684-1721. exhibition catalogue. National Gallery of Art. Washington. 1984. the National Gallery of Art archive. 0-89468-074-9. 557740787.
- Book: Goncourt, Edmond de. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé d'Antoine Watteau. Rapilly. 1875. Paris. 76. 1041772738. Edmond de Goncourt. the Internet Archive.
- Heartz. Daniel. Winter 1988–1989. Watteau's Italian Comedians. Eighteenth-Century Studies. 22. 2. 156–181. 10.2307/2738864. 2738864.
- Book: Lauterbach, Iris. Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721. Taschen. 2008. 978-3-8228-5318-4. Back to Visual Basics. Köln. 12–13, 36, 45–46, 64. 1164836547. registration. the Internet Archive.
- Posner. Donald. February 1983. Another Look at Watteau's Gilles. Apollo. 117. 97–99.
- Book: Roland Michel, Marianne. Watteau: un artiste au XVIII-e siècle. Flammarion. 1984. 0862940494 . Paris. pp. 7, 9, 175, 210, 221, 269, 270, 301, 311; ill. 124, 168, 283. 417153549.
- Book: Schwartz, Sanford. 1990. first published in 1985. A Stranger in Paris. https://archive.org/details/artistswriters00schw/page/128/mode/2up. Artists and Writers. 1990. registration. New York. Yarrow Press. 128–142. 1-878274-01-5. 1028180706.
- Sund. Judy. September 2016. Why So Sad? Watteau's Pierrots. The Art Bulletin. 98. 3. 321–347. 10.1080/00043079.2016.1143752. 43947931. 193504216.
- Book: Vidal, Mary. Watteau's Painted Conversations: Art, Literature, and Talk in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France. Yale University Press. 1992. 0-300-05480-7. 260176725. New Haven, London.
- Book: Masterpieces of Western Art: A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen. 1999. 3-8228-7031-5. Walther. Ingo F.. Cologne, London et al.. registration. the Internet Archive. 350.
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Catalogue entry. 1718.
