The world of Cythera by Antoine WatteauWatteau imagines Cythera as a theater of love where couples, statue of Venus and vaporous landscape hesitate between happy arrival and already melancholy departure.
1684 - 1721Life of Antoine Watteau
Valenciennes and ParisMain homes
Gallant party, drawing, theater and landscapePractical
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1717 -1721 · Gallant party, love and melancholic departure
Watteau imagines Cythera as a theater of love where couples, statue of Venus and vaporous landscape hesitate between happy arrival and already melancholy departure.
With the Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, Antoine Watteau invents an image so singular that the Royal Academy creates for its reception the genre of the gallant festival. Elegant couples get up, converse and head towards a boat under the gaze of Venus and little Cupids. The meaning remains deliberately ambiguous: do they arrive on the island of love or do they leave it after a too brief party? Watteau takes up the composition in several versions, modifying groups, landscape and movement. Does he take up the composition in several versions, modifying groups, landscape and movement. Does his light touch dissolve the contours in the atmosphere and transform the mythology into a modern experience of desire, time and separation. The selection "Cythera by Antoine Watteau" puts particularly with regard to Embarkation for Cythera and Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera. Its reading favors the material.
The Watteau Cythera is an island that we leave at the very moment we think we reach it.
Course & style
Journey, subjects and pictorial language
Theater and parties
Stage figures and landscapes prepare a new poetry of sociability. This milestone sheds light on the "Cythère by Antoine Watteau" collection by favoring the material.
Reception at the Academy
The Pilgrimage to Kythera officially founded the genre of the gallant festival.
Variants and posterity
The covers deepen the ambiguity between seduction, travel and separation.
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Couple
Each duo goes through a different stage of romantic rapprochement. This trait guides a reading of "Cythère by Antoine Watteau" centered on the material.
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Landscape
The vaporous depth transforms the island into a mental as well as a real place.
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Cupid
Winged children make visible the invisible force that carries pilgrims.
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Ambiguity
Departure and arrival remain undecidable, like the very duration of love.
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Six readings specific to Cythera by Antoine Watteau
Works, visual language and historical landmarks make up a journey exclusively devoted to Cythera by Antoine Watteau.
Venus Island01
Boarding for Cythera
Couples and Cupids form a procession whose movement remains deliciously uncertain.
Benchmark work of Cythera by Antoine Watteau. Reading of "Cythera by Antoine Watteau" through the material.Gallant party02
Pilgrimage to the island of Kythera
The landscape and the gestures transform the walk into an allegory of romantic time.
Cythera's landmark work by Antoine WatteauAcademy, 171703
The Pilgrimage to the Island of Kythera
The emblematic version unites statue of Venus, couples and boat in the same arabesque.
Cythera's landmark work by Antoine WatteauMelancholic departure04
Boarding for Cythera
The lightness of the procession is already crossed by the awareness that the party is about to end.
Cythera's landmark work by Antoine WatteauStyle05
Couple
Each duo goes through a different stage of romantic rapprochement. This trait guides a reading of "Cythère by Antoine Watteau" centered on the material.
Reading key for Cythère by Antoine WatteauStyle06
Landscape
The vaporous depth transforms the island into a mental as well as a real place.
Reading key for Cythère by Antoine Watteau
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