Antoine Watteau, 1720 - The Italian Comedians - fine art print

In 1720 Antoine Watteau made this painting. The artwork measures the size of 128,9 x 93,3 cm. Oil on canvas was used by the European painter as the technique for the masterpiece. It can be viewed in in the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital art collection. This masterpiece, which is in the public domain is being included with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.Creditline of the artwork: . Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a side ratio of 1 : 1.4, which implies that the length is 29% shorter than the width. The painter Antoine Watteau was a European artist, whose artistic style was mainly Rococo. The artist was born in the year 1684 in Valenciennes and passed away at the age of 37 in 1721.

Original artwork information from The J. Paul Getty Museum (© - The J. Paul Getty Museum - The J. Paul Getty Museum)

Five comedians have just finished their performance in a verdant park on the outskirts of Paris and look expectantly at their audience. Pierrot, the clown in a baggy white suit, is already holding his hat in his hand, hoping that a few coins might be thrown into it.

Flanking Pierrot are four other performers dressed as characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, which enjoyed great popularity in 18th-century Paris. Brighella wears a splendid greenish-gold suit and shoulder cape trimmed with black stripes. Mezzetin strums a few chords on his guitar, while Harlequin in a black mask with its horsehair eyebrows and moustache peers over his shoulder. A mock Spanish costume of black velvet with a white ruff identifies the figure on the far right as Scaramouche.

The actors penetrate our world with an intense humanity and vivid reality, far removed from the theatrical artifice and caprice of the stage they have just left.

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