There is a painting by Watteau, that most elusive of artists, that shows a young girl in silver-blue satin dancing pensively in a glade. Her partner is a fat man in oriental costume who doesn't seem ...

Our first guide, presenting 15 masterpieces of European Painting, barely scratched the surface of the vast collection held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On March 24 and 25, Christie's ...

Watteau: The Drawings at Royal Academy opens this week. The exhibition explores the development and mastery of his drawings. Credit: Jean-Antoine Watteau The exhibition presents over 80 works from the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As Christie's auctions off Jean-Antoine Watteau's long-lost work, TNR's art critic explores the tension and indecisiveness of his favorite painter. La Surprise was actually shown at Christie's in New ...

Three Studies of a Young Girl Wearing a Hat c.1716 Credit: Photo: Jean-Antoine Watteau Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was the most talented and innovative painter in early 18th-century France. He ...

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 ...

The courtiers of prerevolutionary France valued charm, wit, and “erotic cynicism,” said Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker. Frits Lugt, a Dutch collector with “a special fondness for the French 18th ...

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 ...

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 ...

Including works by the likes of Fragonard, Watteau and Vigée Le Brun, the Veil-Picard collection is one of the finest private holdings of 18th-century French art in the world — and its highlights can ...