Watteau's soldiers : scenes of military life in eighteenth-century France
2016
756 W676 2016
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Title
Watteau's soldiers : scenes of military life in eighteenth-century France
Variant Title
Scenes of military life in eighteenth-century France
Published
New York : The Frick Collection in association with D Giles Limited, 2016.
Description
112 p. : chiefly colored ill. ; 26 cm.
Call Number
756 W676 2016
System Control No.
(OCoLC)937061981
Note
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by The Frick Collection, New York, and on view from July 12 to October 2, 2016.
Though celebrated for his dreamlike paintings of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) also produced a number of captivating works with military subjects paintings and drawings early in his career. They were executed when France was engaged in the costly and ultimately disastrous War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), but they look past the turbulence of battle and the heroic deeds of generals and kings to depict the more prosaic aspects of war: marches, halts, encampments. Watteau focuses on the quiet moments between the fighting, outside of military discipline, when soldiers could rest, daydream, smoke pipes, and play cards. Although they owe a debt to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish precedents, his works put forward a new, thoroughly modern vision of war in which the soldier's inner life, his experience of war, is brought to the fore--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-107) and index.
L2016M102
Though celebrated for his dreamlike paintings of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors, Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) also produced a number of captivating works with military subjects paintings and drawings early in his career. They were executed when France was engaged in the costly and ultimately disastrous War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), but they look past the turbulence of battle and the heroic deeds of generals and kings to depict the more prosaic aspects of war: marches, halts, encampments. Watteau focuses on the quiet moments between the fighting, outside of military discipline, when soldiers could rest, daydream, smoke pipes, and play cards. Although they owe a debt to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish precedents, his works put forward a new, thoroughly modern vision of war in which the soldier's inner life, his experience of war, is brought to the fore--Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-107) and index.
L2016M102
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