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The Signboard of Gersaint
1720-1721
An art dealer's shop becomes a brilliant farewell to fashion, painting and Watteau's own era.
Artist field note
Jean-Antoine Watteau
Pleasure is already shadowed by departure.
Appears inFrance
The five in one idea
Watteau made refinement inseparable from melancholy and the knowledge that every gathering ends.