PELERINAGE A L'ILE DE CYTHERE (SÉRIE PALETTES)

WATTEAU - LE SECRET DE LA FETE GALANTE

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1995, 00:31:00

Production : ARTE France, PALETTE PRODUCTIONS
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : History of art, Painting

Summary :
With “Mona Lisa”, “Concert Champêtre” or “The Wedding at Cana”, this painting by Watteau is one of the glories of the Louvre Museum. Lauded by Vivant-Denon, Baudelaire, Nerval, Gautier, Verlaine, Michelet, Rodin, and Proust, copied by numerous painters, always interpreted, it is both a legend and a utopia. Painted by Watteau in 1717, repainted in a slightly different way later (this second version can be found at the castle of Charlottenberg, in Berlin). “The Embarkation for Cythera” is part of the cycle “Fêtes Galantes” in which the painter from Valenciennes has given the best of himself. Mysterious painting (What are they doing? Where are they going?), it gives way to many questions and as many different answers.

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