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Watteau was prolific, died young
; Jean Antoine Watteau was born in 1684 in the French-controlled...to artists and continued his studies. Watteau, who died of what is believed to have...the Louvre in Paris. Another well-known Watteau is "Les Champs Elysees" in the Wallace...
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Watteau surprise at auction; MASTERPIECES.(News)
; ARTWORKS by Goya and Watteau which had been missing for centuries fetched pounds 16million last night. La Surprise, by Frenchman Jean-Antoine Watteau, sold at Christie's auction house for pounds 12,361,250 - a world record for a French Old Master...
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[pounds]5m 'lost' Watteau goes on show
; ...Surprise, a painting by French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau, thought missing for almost 200...century works on Tuesday. The Watteau was thought to have been destroyed...king of France and a friend of Watteau. The Goyas had been missing, presumed...
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A Watteau reaches pound(s)12.36 million in an uneven Old Masters sale AUCTIONS
; ...Herald Tribune 07-10-2008 A Watteau reaches pound(s)12.36 million...Surprise," a genre scene by Jean-Antoine Watteau. As it shot up to pound(s...art historian writing about Watteau since the 19th century had...the catalogue raisonne of Watteau's paintings, was able to retrace...
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Surprise as Watteau fetches record [pounds] 1 m ; NEWS IN BRIEF
; ...than 200 years has sold for [pounds]12 million at auction more than double the amount expected. La Surprise by Jean-Antoine Watteau, thought to have been destroyed, was discovered last year at a British country house, owned by an anonymous aristocrat...
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Classical summer of love
; The art of love Jean-Antoine Watteau The Embarkation for Cythera 1717 Louvre...them are more imaginary than others. Watteau's Embarkation for Cythera depicts a super-civilis...faintest echo down the centuries from Watteau's Cythera to Club Med.
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Gilty Pleasures
; ...AROUND 1720, the French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau painted a signboard for his dealer...Downplaying its commercial status, Watteau portrayed the shop as a setting...little relation to the art world as Watteau and his dealer see it-an open...
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Your Money: FOCUS ON A VANISHED MASTERPIECE AND 3 GOYAS.(Business)
; ...RECENTLY rediscovered masterpiece by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) sold at a world-record...crunch among Old Masters. Basics WATTEAU was one of Europe's most influential...pounds 6,504,000). CAPTION(S): Watteau's pounds 12million masterpiece
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Anniversaries
; Births: Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter, 1684; Giuseppe Fortunio Francesco Verdi, composer, 1813; Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, farmer and Boer statesman...
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Chanel, Ungaro: the young and the racy.
; ...met the ghost of Rococo painter Jean Antoine Watteau Tuesday afternoon in the gilt...have a hell of a lot to do with Watteau, or, for that matter, Chanel...with virtue intact. Even the Watteau-quoting numbers work, because...
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