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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Antoine Watteau
An Embarrassing Proposal
1715-1716
oil on canvas
65 x 84.5 cm
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
KEY TOPICS:
● In the foreground is a group of five people, including a man sitting on the ground, two
women sitting on something beside him (one with a lute), and a man and a woman standing.
The standing man is reaching his hand out to the woman beside him who appears to be
slightly recoiling from him. In the distance, a house can be seen and trees frame the piece on
either side. Clouds and a blue sky complete the background.
● This piece is in the fetes-galante style, but definitely not a fetes-galante!
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