Thursday, 11 September 2025

The Portal of Valenciennes Jean-Antoine Watteau

 ca. 1710–11. The Portal of Valenciennes

Antoine Watteau is better known for his bucolic scenes but early in his career he painted a few realistic scenes, such as this one showing French soldiers idling the time away during winter in his home town of Valenciennes near the borders of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium) during the War of the Spanish Succession, 


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