The Country Dance
Antoine Watteau · Oil on wood
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
The Country Dance is a public-domain painting by Antoine Watteau. Oil on wood. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Country Dance” (date not listed) is a Watteau subject, a gathering in a park, or a drawing for one. A print may be a later plate after the painting.
About the artist
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) painted fêtes galantes: elegant figures in parks, with a theatrical melancholy. Many sheets are drawings or later prints after him.
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