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Artists who influenced Jean-Antoine Watteau
He is best known for his invention of a new genre, the fête galante, a small easel painting in which elegant people are depicted in conversation or music-making in a secluded parkland setting. His particular originality lies in the generally restrained nature of the amorous exchanges of his characters, which are conveyed as much by glance as by gesture, and in his mingling of figures in contempora ... more (Google)Artists who were influenced by Jean-Antoine Watteau

Peter Rubens

Pierrot
(Musee du Louvre)

Perfect Accord
(Los Angeles County Museum)

Francisco de Goya

Jan Steen

Party in Open Air
(Staatliche Museen)

Surprise

François Boucher

Anthony van Dyck

Gersaint's Shop Sign
(Staatliche Museen)

Pilgrimage to Cythera
(Musee du Louvre)

Thomas Gainsborough

Nicolaes Berchem

Mezzetin
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Ceres
(National Gallery of Art)

Jean-Siméon Chardin