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Charlotte Mason Picture Study Aid Antoine Watteau

Further Reading on Watteau

Unfortunately, not much concrete information exists about the very short life of Antoine Watteau

and most biographies and historical books are primarily conjecture.

To read more about what has been speculated about his life, a series of fictional “journal entries”

written by people who knew him that discuss his early life and later successes can be found in The
Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 105. This is available on Google books here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=oCUzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA782#v=onepage&q&f=false

Another fictional account written in chapter form of his early life (from which I took the
biographical part of the picture study aid) is in Boy Artists, Or, Sketches of the Childhood of

Michael Angelo, Mozart, Haydn, Watteau, and Sebastian Gomèz by E.P. Dutton. This can also be

found on Google books here:

https://books.google.com/books?id=hZ4XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107#v=onepage&q&f=false

To see more of his artworks, the book The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces

of French Genre Painting by Colin B. Bailey, Philip Conisbee, Thomas Gaehtgens, and Thomas W.
Gaehtgens is absolutely beautiful and I was able to find it through my library. You may want to

preview this as many of his paintings and Rococo in general include quite a bit of and adult themes.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find any children’s books specifically about Watteau. If you know of

one that is of good quality, please feel free to contact me at reb@ahumbleplace.com!

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