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"The drawings of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) have been admired and collected with a degree of enthusiasm accorded to no other artist of the French school. Watteau drew relentlessly, and the hundreds of his drawings known today demonstrate the full range of his genius, encompassing arabesques and decorative designs; landscapes; copies after the old masters; sketches of actors, clowns, singers, musicians, soldiers, and animals; multifigure preparatory drawings for theater designs and fetes galantes; and his celebrated studies of lovers in fancy dress, executed in red, black, and white chalks." "While focusing primarily on the extraordinary achievements of Watteau himself, in all their variety and vivacity, this book also explores the work of Watteau's mentors Claude Gillot and Charles de La Fosse, of Jean-Baptiste Pater (his only real pupil), and of his followers and imitators Nicolas Lancret, Pierre-Antoine Quillard, Jacques-Andre Portail, Francois Lemoyne. Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Charles Natoire, and Francois Boucher."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved