Jean-Antoine WatteauFrankreich, 1684–1721Gilles
Pierrot
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Pierrot, genannt Gilles (französischer Titel: Pierrot, älterer Titel: Gilles) ist ein Gemälde des französischen Malers Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), das etwa 1718/1719 entstand. Es zeigt den Clown Pierrot aus der italienischen Commedia dell’arte, der mit einem melancholisch traurigen Gesichtsausdruck erhöht vor den anderen eher heiter gestimmten Mitgliedern seiner Schauspielertruppe steht. Das Werk inspirierte durch seinen rätselhaften Charakter andere Künstler wie Marcel Carné, Pablo Picasso und Henri Rousseau. Heute befindet es sich im Pariser Louvre, im Gebäudekomplex Sully, Saal 36.
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
- MI 1121
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- Louvre
- Bild: Louvre — © 2024 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Mathieu Rabeau
Derweil im Leben von Jean-Antoine Watteau
Das ganze Leben1710s
Meets Edme-François Gersaint
At Sirois's house Watteau meets his son-in-law, the art dealer Edme-François Gersaint, who soon becomes a close friend.
1710s
Tuberculosis sets in
Watteau's fame grows steadily, yet he is as a rule dissatisfied with everything that comes from his brush; at the same time he develops a serious illness, tuberculosis.
28 August 1717
Elected to the Academy: a “fête galante”
By 1717 Watteau's “gallant scenes” have had such wide success that an exception is made for his reception piece, “Pilgrimage to Cythera”: in the minutes the words “pilgrimage to Cythera” are struck out and replaced by “fête galante”. Watteau is elected a full member of the Academy; the ceremony is attended by the First Painter to the King, Antoine Coypel, by Claude Gillot and by the Regent, the Duke of Orléans.
late 1719 – summer 1720
To London, to see Dr Richard Mead
Watteau's health is failing, and he goes to England at the invitation of Philippe Mercier, an admirer and imitator, hoping to overcome tuberculosis with the help of the well-known physician Richard Mead. The treatment brings no noticeable result and the London climate only aggravates his condition; he returns to Paris in summer 1720, gravely ill.
spring 1721
Moves to Nogent-sur-Marne
In spring Watteau's condition worsens; he leaves Gersaint's house but soon asks for help again, since he finds it hard to breathe in Paris. His friend the Abbé Pierre-Maurice Haranger asks Philippe Le Fèvre, the steward of the king's minor entertainments, to make available an empty house with a garden on the edge of Nogent-sur-Marne, far from the stuffiness and bustle of the capital.
18. Juli 1721
Died
