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    Watteau
    Watteau
    Watteau
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    Watteau

    By C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Watteau - C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Watteau, by C. Lewis Hind

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Watteau

      Author: C. Lewis Hind

      Release Date: December 14, 2012 [EBook #41621]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WATTEAU ***

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      Internet Archive)

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY

      T. LEMAN HARE

      WATTEAU

      1684-1721

      Masterpieces in Colour Series

      PLATE I.—A PASTORAL. Frontispiece

      (In the Louvre, Paris)

      The attribution to Watteau of this pretty pastoral has been questioned. It is thus described in the Louvre catalogue, At the foot of a knoll, a shepherdess, with a yellow dress and a red bodice, sits turning to the left, to listen to a shepherd, seen from the back, wearing pink breeches and a violet vest, who plays on the flute; on the right a sheep and a dog. Landscape in the background.

      Watteau

      BY C. LEWIS HIND

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

      NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      PROLOGUE

      THE apparition of Watteau in France in the early eighteenth century may be likened to the apparition of Giotto in Italy in the early fourteenth. Each was a genius; each broke away from the herd; each gave to the world a new vision; each inspired a school. But there the resemblance ends. Giotto's art was Christian, Watteau's Pagan; or, in other words, Giotto lived in an age when the aim of art was to teach religion, Watteau—well, his pictures were designed to delight. Giotto sought to remind men of Christianity, to bring them humbly to their knees with representations (marvellously fresh in those days when art was still groping in the Byzantine twilight) of the life of the Founder of Christianity, all its pathos, pity, and promise. Watteau gave joy and exhiliration to a generation temporally dull and morose, chilled by the academical art of the period, and apparently content with it. Watteau appeared: the little world about him looked at his pictures and, what a change! "Paris dressed,

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