Anne Claude de Tubières-Grimoard de Pestels de Lévis, comte de Caylus, marquis d'Esternay, baron de Bransac, was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters.
Count de Caylus by Alexander Roslin, National Museum, Warsaw
Caylus in Receuil d'Antiquités, Book 7, 1767
Sphinx of Pharaoh Apries of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt, from the collection of Count Caylus, now at the Louvre.
The "Caylus vase" in the name of Xerxes I, was key in the decipherment of cuneiform. Now in the Cabinet des Médailles.
Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter and draughtsman whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical, Rococo. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.
Rosalba Carriera, Portrait of Antoine Watteau, c. 1721, showing the artist in the last year of his life. Musei Civici [it], Treviso
Pleasures of Love (1718–1719)
The Feast (or Festival) of Love (1718–1719)
The Embarkation for Cythera, 1717, Louvre. Many commentators note that it depicts a departure from the island of Cythera, the birthplace of Venus, thus symbolizing the brevity of love.
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