Watteau

[ wo-toh; French va-toh ]

noun

1. Jean An·toine [zhah, n, ah, n, -, twan], 1684–1721, French painter.

Watteau

/ ˈwɒtəʊ; vato /

noun

1. WatteauJean-Antoine16841721MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Jean-Antoine (ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan). 1684–1721, French painter, esp of fêtes champêtres

Example Sentences

See her companion in shot silk and a dove-colored parasol; in what a graceful Watteau-like attitude she reclines.

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But how delicious they are, these French gossips, so long as one is mindful not to think of Watteau!

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Watteau acquired something from everyone he studied, and yet resembles none.

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Watteau knew nature and loved her, and rendered her in her transparent beauty with the intoxicated eyes of a lover.

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Watteau became for French art what, a hundred years before, Rubens had been for Flemish—the deliverer.

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