Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Watteau’s images related to music and theater in the Met’s exhibition present us with an idealized, fictional ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1627): Yesterday, I finally had a chance to take in the little show called “Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France,” at the Frick Collection in New ...

Outdoor celebrations—mythological bacchanals, picnics, and the like—have been a favorite subject of artists for centuries, as you already know if you’ve been keeping up with us. And among the best at ...

In a move that’s both a long-held dream come true and an acquisition with potential for art-world debate, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced Thursday that it has bought “The Italian Comedians,” a ...

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Revisiting Watteau’s beloved clown, alone in merry company at the National Gallery of Art Widely regarded as the greatest of 18th-century French painters, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was also ...

The Royal Academy of Arts in London will host the first ever major retrospective of Jean-Antoine Watteau's sketched work to be exhibited in the UK. Click on the image to preview the exhibition online ...

Today the Watteau train is getting a modern makeover from fashion designers who are putting their stamp on the style. Today the Watteau is getting a modern makeover from fashion designers who are ...

VIRGINIANS who turn out next week for the festivities at Richmond’s 20-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will find themselves in an 18th-century garden, strolling past a decorative fountain and ...