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Jean-Antoine Watteau
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Definition:[1684-1721]celebrated French painter and engraver, born at Valenciennes; his pictures were numerous and the subjects almost limited to pseudo-pastoral rural groups; the tone of the colouring is pleasing, and the design graceful.Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)
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He stammered, choked, with arms outstretched toward the empty places, toward the denuded walls where naught remained but the useless nails and cords. The Watteau, disappeared! The Rubens, carried away! The tapestries taken down! The cabinets, despoiled of their jewels!
Maurice Leblanc. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
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Beyond these the flowers were more frequent, but paler, less glossy, more thickly seeded, more tightly folded, and disposed, by accident, in festoons so graceful that I would fancy I saw floating upon the stream, as though after the dreary stripping of the decorations used in some Watteau festival, moss-roses in loosened garlands.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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