This man painted eight panels, including The Cajoler and The Faun, to decorate the dining hall of the Marquis de Nointel. A l
This man painted eight panels, including The Cajoler and The Faun, to decorate the dining hall of the Marquis de Nointel. A lion and a nude boy flank the title figure, who is enthroned on clouds and holds a scythe, in his Ceres (Summer), the only surviving work in a series on the seasons this artist created for his patron Pierre Crozat. A man realizes too late that he has touched the back of a noblewoman in one painting, while an ugly, hag-like face is reflected in a mirror as the title figure hands an apple to a disrobing Venus in another. This painter of The Misstep –  better known as Le Faux pas – and The (*) Judgment of Paris painted several depictions of a very sad clown in a baggy white costume in his Pierrot works, and showed a man in a pink headdress playing a guitar in Mezzetin. Toward the end of his life, this artist speculated on a lack of future popularity by showing his works being packed away in the titular locale, Gersaint's Shop-Sign. A child crouches by a seated couple at the right edge of his best-known work, which includes cherubs floating up to the sky in the background as numerous figures pass by a statue of Venus to take the titular expedition. Famous for popularizing "fete galante" paintings, FTP, identify this Rococo artist of Embarkation for Cythera.
This man painted eight panels, including The Cajoler and The Faun, to decorate the dining hall of the Marquis de Nointel.
(Jean-)Antoine {Watteau}