Wattaeu at Work - La Surprise

Wattaeu at Work - La Surprise
Richard Rand, Davide Gasparotto, Emily A Beeny
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Paperback
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23 Nov 2021 US
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9781606067352
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The painting La Surprise by Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) belongs to a new genre of painting invented by the artist himself-the fete galante. These works, which show graceful open-air gatherings filled with scenes of courtship, music and dance, strolling lovers, and actors, do not so much tell a story as set a mood: one of playful, wistful, nostalgic reverie. Esteemed by collectors in Watteau' s day as a work that showed the artist at the height of his skill and success, La Surprise vanished from public view in 1848, not to reemerge for more than a century and a half. Acquired by the Getty Museum in 2017, it has never before been the subject of a dedicated publication. Marking the three hundredth anniversary of Watteau' s death, this book considers La Surprise within the context of the artist' s oeuvre, and discusses the surprising history of collecting Watteau in Los Angeles.
Emily A. Beeny, former associate curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, is curator in charge of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Davide Gasparotto is senior curator of paintings and chair, curatorial affairs, at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Richard Rand is associate director for collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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ISBN-13: 9781606067352
Published: 23 Nov 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Getty Publications
Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88

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