WATTEAU, ANTOINE

Additional reading The great critical studies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries include: Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, L'Art du XVIIIe sicle, 3rd ed. rev., 2 vol. (1880-82); and Edmond de Goncourt, Catalogue raisonn de l'oeuvre peint, dessin et grav d'Antoine Watteau (1875); John W. Mollett, Watteau (1883); Paul Mantz, Antoine Watteau (1892), in French; Claude Phillips, Antoine Watteau (1895); Gabriel Seailles, Watteau (1902), in French; Emil Hannover, Antoine Watteau (1889), in German; John Edgcumbe Staley, Watteau, Master-Painter of the "Ftes gallantes" (1901); Louis Gillet, Watteau: Un Grand Matre du XVIIIe sicle (1921); E.H. Zimmermann, Watteau (1912, in German; French trans. 1924); and Sacheverell Sitwell, Antoine Watteau (1925). For the great critical interest in the work of Watteau that has arisen among the scholars since the 1920s, the following works should be consulted: Charles Kunstler, Watteau, l'enchanteur (1936); Gilbert W. Barker, Antoine Watteau (1939); Albert E. Brinckmann, Watteau (1943), in German; Maxmilien Gauthier, Watteau (Eng. trans. 1959); Ren Huyghe and Helne Adhemar, Watteau, sa vie, son oeuvre (1950); and Ren Huyghe, L'Univers de Watteau (1968; Watteau 1970). New interpretations of the "Embarquement pour Cythre" have been proposed by Michael Levey in "The Real Theme of Watteau's Embarkation for Cytherea," Burlington Magazine, 103:180-185 (1961); and by Giovanni Macchia in L'opera completa di Watteau (1970). Other recent monographs are those by Anita Brookner, Watteau (1967); and Jean Cailleux and Marianne Roland-Michel, Watteau et sa gnration (1968). On Watteau's drawings, see K.T. Parker, The Drawings of Antoine Watteau (1931); Jacques Bouchot-Sauphique, Les Dessins de Watteau (1953); K.T. Parker and J. Mathey, Antoine Watteau: Catalogue complet de son oeuvre dessin, 2 vol. (1957-58); Pierre Schneider, The World of Watteau, 1684-1721 (1967); and Malcolm Cormack, The Drawings of Watteau (1970). Major Works: "L'le de Cythre" (1709-12; J. Heugel Collection, Paris); "La Perspective" (1712-15; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston); "Ceres (Summer)" (1712-15; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); "La Conversation" (1712-15; J. Heugel Collection); "L'Accorde de village" (1712-15; Sir John Sloane's Museum, London); "Jupiter et Antiope" (1712-16; Louvre, Paris); "L'Amour dsarm" (1714-16; Muse Cond, Chantilly, Fr.); "Le Bal Champtre" (1714-15?; Dulwich College Picture Gallery, London); "La Gamme d'Amour" (c. 1715; National Gallery, London); "Harlequin and Columbine" ("Voulez-vous triompher des belles," 1716?; Wallace Collection, London); "The French Comedy" ("L'Amour au thtre franais," 1716; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin); "The Italian Comedy" ("L'amour au thtre italien," 1716?; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz); "L'Indiffrent" (c. 1716; Louvre); "La Finette" (c. 1716; Louvre); "Les Deux Cousines" (1716-17; Hubert de Ganay Collection, Paris); "Assemble dans un parc" (1716-17; Louvre); "Gilles and His Family" ("Sous un habit de Mezzetin," 1716-18; Wallace Collection); "L'Embarquement pour l'le de Cythre" (1717; Louvre); "The Embarkation for Cythre" ("L'Embarquement pour Cythre," 1717?; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz); "The Music-Party" ("Les Charmes de la vie," 1717-18; Wallace Collection); "Ftes venitiennes," (c. 1718; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh); "Mezzetin" (1718-19; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City); "The Champs-lyses" (1718-19; Wallace Collection); "The Halt During the Chase" ("Le Rendez-vous de chasse," c. 1720; Wallace Collection); "A Lady at Her Toilet" ("La Toilette," 1720; Wallace Collection); "Italian Comedians" (1720; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); "The French Comedians" (1720?; Metropolitan Museum of Art); "Le Jugement de Paris" (1721?; Louvre); "L'Enseigne de Gersaint" (c. 1720-21; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz); "Gilles" (1720-21; Louvre).