The 1000++ Artworks of media Oil On Canvas and containing the word jean antoine watteau, oil on canvas, rococo, 1700

The costumes and repertoire of French comedians was distinct from Watteau’s favored Italian commedia dell’arte. This painting’s principal male figure is dressed in an old-fashioned, formal costume that in the eighteenth century would have been appropriate for a subject from antiquity. Typical of Wat...

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Watteau shows a young couple in an idyllic woodland setting. The girl rests her arm on the young man’s knee while he examines a sparrow’s nest that he has just taken from a tree to show her. The romantic setting is emphasised by the roses on the rock beside them. The painting was engraved in 1727 by...

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Richard Dana (1700–1772) was a justice of the province of Massachusetts and a leading figure of the Boston bar. During the early stages of the Revolution, the city depended on his sage legal advice. He was a member of the committee that investigated the Boston Massacre in 1770, at about the same tim...

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