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Jean-Antoine Watteau: The Italian Comedians  wikidata:Q20178634 reasonator:Q20178634
Artist
Jean-Antoine Watteau  (1684–1721)  wikidata:Q183221 s:en:Author:Jean-Antoine Watteau q:et:Antoine Watteau
 
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Alternative names
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Description French painter, graphic artist, drawer, artist, printmaker and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 10 October 1684 Edit this at Wikidata 18 July 1721 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Valenciennes Edit this at Wikidata Nogent-sur-Marne Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1700 Edit this at Wikidata–1721 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris (after 1702
date QS:P,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1702-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
), Valenciennes (1709-1710), London (1719-1720)
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artist QS:P170,Q183221
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
The Italian Comedians
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Five comedians have just finished their performance in a verdant park on the outskirts of Paris and look expectantly at their audience. Pierrot, the clown in a baggy white suit, is already holding his hat in his hand, hoping that a few coins might be thrown into it.


Flanking Pierrot are four other performers dressed as characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte , which enjoyed great popularity in 18th-century Paris. Brighella wears a splendid greenish-gold suit and shoulder cape trimmed with black stripes. Mezzetin strums a few chords on his guitar, while Harlequin in a black mask with its horsehair eyebrows and moustache peers over his shoulder. A mock Spanish costume of black velvet with a white ruff identifies the figure on the far right as Scaramouche.

The actors penetrate our world with an intense humanity and vivid reality, far removed from the theatrical artifice and caprice of the stage they have just left.
Date circa 1720
date QS:P571,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 128.9 cm (50.7 in); width: 93.3 cm (36.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,128.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,93.3U174728
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
2012.5
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The Getty Center, Object 335970

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  • Reproduction from Pater by Florence Ingersoll-Smouse (1928), fig. 179
    Reproduction from Pater by Florence Ingersoll-Smouse (1928), fig. 179

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