Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and the subversive utopia of the opera-ballet.

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: Cowart, Georgia | Copyright information

Antoine Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera (Fig. 1) served as his reception piece at the Academie Royale de Peinture, to which he had been accepted as a candidate in 1712. On its acceptance in 1717, the records of the Academie Royale show the deletion of its original title, Le pelerinage a Cythere, and the substitution of the words "une feste galante." Within the next two or three years, Watteau completed a second version of the painting, more embellished and brighter in color, which ...

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