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Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France
Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France
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- ISBN 9781907804793
- Dimensions: 210 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jul 2016
- Publisher: D Giles Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Celebrated for his dreamlike paintings of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors, Antoine Watteau (16841721) also produced a number of captivating works with military subjects-paintings and drawingsearly in his career. They were executed when France was engaged in the costly and ultimately disastrous War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), but they look past the turbulence of battle and the heroic deeds of generals and kings to depict the more prosaic aspects of warmarches, halts, encampments, and bivouacs. They focus on the quiet moments between the fighting, outside of military discipline, when soldiers could rest and daydream and smoke pipes and play cards. Although they owe a debt to seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish precedents, they put forward a new, thoroughly modern vision of war in which the soldier's inner life, his experience of war, is brought to the fore. The inclusion of preparatory drawings after live models, alongside a group of major finished oils, highlights the relationship between drawing and painting in Watteau's work, and how he developed his ideas for the subject and composition of his paintings. The works are drawn from a wide range of US and European institutions including the Frick (The Portal of Valenciennes), Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, National Galleries of Scotland, Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection in Madrid and York Art Gallery (The Line of March). AUTHOR: Aaron Wile is the Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow, The Frick Collection, New York, 2014-2016. He is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, where he is writing a dissertation on painting in France at the end of Louis XIV's reign. SELLING POINTS: . Introduces a little-known aspect of a well-loved artist's career . A lively, accessible essay that engages broader historical questions about the history of selfhood and the cultural history of war . Includes the first catalogue raisonne of Watteau's military works 82 colour
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