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Home>Exhibitions>Past>1984>Watteau: 1624-1721

# Watteau: 1684-1721

June 17 – September 23, 1984West Building Ground Floor

1946.7.9

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

**Overview:**73 paintings, 143 drawings, and 8 etchings commemorated the 300th anniversary of the birth of Antoine Watteau. 41 of the paintings including *Gilles,The Embarkation for Cythera*, and *Gersaint's Shopsign* were shown in the United States for the first time.

**Organization:**Pierre Rosenberg, chief curator at the Musée du Louvre, selected the paintings. Margaret Morgan Grasselli was coordinator at the National Gallery and was in charge of the graphics. Gaillard Ravenel and Mark Leithauser designed the exhibition and Gordon Anson designed the lighting for the National Gallery. Versions of the exhibition were shown in Paris and Berlin.

**Catalog:***Watteau: 1684-1721*, by Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Pierre Rosenberg, with Nicole Parmantier. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1984.

**Other Venues:**  Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, October 23, 1984–January 28, 1985Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, February 22–May 26, 1985

18th-Century France — The Rococo and Watteau

                    - Watteau, Antoine
                    - French , 1684 - 1721

Download a free PDF of the exhibition catalog (PDF 215MB)

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