Detail of Self-portrait of Watteau with a friend, in a landscape, etching, by Nicolas Henry Tardieu,

Detail of Self-portrait of Watteau with a friend, in a landscape, etching, by Nicolas Henry Tardieu, after Watteau, 425 x 305 mmWatteau, who you see in the center of this image with a friend, and Boucher represent fashionable painting in Paris during a large part of the eighteenth century. Their art forms part of an artistic movement known as RococoRococo was a style that emerged in the decorative arts (the term is used for furniture, designs for fabrics, tapestries, glassware,silverware and the like). It was a style characterized by the playful use of the exuberant curved lines, and rounded shapes, that look for inspiration in the natural world, in trees and plants and shells. -- source link

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