Antoine Watteau, 18th century - January and February (part of a set illustrating the months of the year) - fine art print

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One of a set of panels (22.225.1–6) which probably formed a set of decoration for a room. Each panel represents two months of the year, depicting astrological signs and occupations appropriate to the seasons. January and February are represented by an old man and Harlequin warming themselves in front of a fire, above, and a skater, below. The figures of Pierrot, Harlequin and a putto with a tambourine allude to Carnival.

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the male painter Antoine Watteau made the contemporary art piece of art called "January and February (part of a set illustrating the months of the year)". The original was made with the size: Overall: 116 × 15 1/2 in (294,6 × 39,4 cm). Oil on panel; wood frame, painted yellow and gilded was used by the European artist as the medium of the work of art. It forms part of the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1922 (public domain). : Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1922. On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with an image ratio of 2 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Antoine Watteau was a male painter, whose art style was mainly Rococo. The French artist lived for a total of 37 years, born in the year 1684 in Valenciennes and deceased in 1721 in Nogent-sur-Marne.

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