Antoine watteau biography

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Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens.
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In Watteau arrived in Paris, first finding employment with a picture dealer on the Pont Notre-Dame specializing in the rote production of portraits and religious paintings.

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WATTEAU, ANTOINE (born Jean-Antoine; – ), French painter.
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The French painter Antoine Watteau () was the catalyst of the Regency period of the rococo style.