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Sketch with Two Figures
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Jean-Antoine Watteau made this countless figure studies that fed into his finished this paintings. This sketch captures two figures with the graceful, fluid lines that characterize his draftsmanship.
Watteau invented the fête galante genre, depicting aristocratic figures in parkland settings. His drawings were so prized that collectors bound them into albums after his early death at thirty-six. This study resides at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Britain's oldest public museum with a fine collection of Rococo drawings.
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About Sketch with Two Figures
This drawing is at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, which has a fine collection of Rococo drawings. Jean-Antoine Watteau made countless figure studies that fed into his finished paintings.
Watteau defined Rococo painting and invented the fête galante genre of aristocratic parkland scenes It's held at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
His drawings were so prized that collectors bound them into albums after his early death at thirty-six It's at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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