Children Parodying a Triumph of Bacchus
Antoine Watteau · c. 1708/1709 · red chalk with gray wash on laid paper
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About this picture
Children Parodying a Triumph of Bacchus is a public-domain drawing by Antoine Watteau, dated c. 1708/1709. Red chalk with gray wash on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Children Parodying a Triumph of Bacchus” (c. 1708/1709) 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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