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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...painting, Le Lorgneur or The Sidelong Glance (opposite), by famed 18th-century French Painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Filling the rest of the gallery will be a loan exhibition of some 50 paintings and drawings by such other 18th-century French painters as Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, testimony to the fact that the tone of elegance and grace set by Watteau in his dreamlike scenes of pastoral dalliance and fétes galantes continued straight through his century until the French Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: NEW ACQUISITION: VIRGINIA MUSEUM'S WATTEAU | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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