A painter launches his career with novel portrayals of Louis XIV’s war-weary soldiers. Jean-Antoine Watteau is famous today for his fêtes galantes: small paintings of stylized clowns, musicians, actors, and flirtatious lovers set in parklike landscapes. They are the definitive work of 18th-century rococo style. But Watteau first made his reputation with paintings of a …
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