Antoine Watteau

Jean Antoine Watteau came from a modest family in the Flemish city of Valenciennes, now in northern France. He is said to have spent his formative years training under either the religious painter Jacques Albert Gérin (c. 1640-1702) or the sculptor Antoine Joseph Pater (1670-1747), the father of his only pupil, Jean Baptiste Pater (1695-1736). In 1702 Watteau arrived in Pa...