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Les Champs Elisées

Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721)

The Wallace Collection

Les Champs Elisées

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One of Watteau’s most famous compositions, 'Les Champs Elisées' evokes the spirit of an idealised park landscape. The picture may be read as a progress of love. We move from left to right through child-like innocence, female friendship and conversation between the sexes to the isolation of the observer standing on the right. The sleeping Venus on the dolphin fountain acts as a witty comment on the platonic nature of the foreground scene. This is in direct contrast to the background, where between the trees we glimpse loving couples and boisterous dancers recalling Rubens's earthy kermesses.

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Title

Les Champs Elisées

Date

c.1720–1721

Medium

oil on mahogany panel

Measurements

H 31.2 x W 41 cm

Accession number

P389

Acquisition method

acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1848; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897

Work type

Painting

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Jean-Antoine Watteau

1684–1721

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