Antoine Watteau, 18th century - July and August (part of a set illustrating 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. July and August are represented by peasants resting and a landscape with bathers.

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This artpiece was painted by Antoine Watteau. The version of the painting was painted with the following size: Overall: 119 × 73 in (302,3 × 185,4 cm). Oil on canvas; wood frame, painted yellow and gilded was used by the European painter as the technique for the piece of art. Today, this artwork is in the the 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 license). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1922. Further, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a ratio of 2 : 3, meaning that the length is 33% shorter than the width. Antoine Watteau was a painter of French nationality, whose style was primarily Rococo. The French painter lived for a total of 37 years - born in the year 1684 in Valenciennes and deceased in the year 1721 in Nogent-sur-Marne.

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