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Jean-Antoine Watteau completed this Pierrot Content (Happy Pierrot) as part of his beloved fête galante scenes recalling the Commedia dell'arte. The contented Pierrot sits at the center, flanked by two men and two women, one playing guitar. The magical atmosphere captures aristocratic leisure.
This painting differs from Watteau's famous melancholy Pierrot (Gilles) at the Louvre. Happy Pierrot represents one of the first fête galante scenes set outdoors. The work demonstrates Watteau's theatrical sensibility and mastery of Rococo elegance. Now at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.

Caravaggio
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Madrid

Jacob van Ruisdael
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Madrid

Paul Gauguin
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Madrid

Canaletto
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Madrid
Other masterpieces from the Rococo movement

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1767
Wallace Collection, London

Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
The Huntington, San Marino

François Boucher, 1752
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Joshua Reynolds, 1776
National Gallery, London

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Thomas Gainsborough, 1787
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

François Boucher, 1742
Louvre, Paris, Paris

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1782
National Gallery, London
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