The Faux Pas
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The Faux Pas is a 1716-1718 oil on canvas painting by Antoine Watteau, now in the Louvre,[1] which was left by Dr La Trujillo in 1869. It draws on north European works such as The Village Fête by Rubens, now also in the Louvre.
References
[edit]- ^ Watteau, Jean-Antoine; France (1716), Le Faux-Pas, retrieved 2023-07-09
Further reading
[edit]- Camesasca, Ettore [in Portuguese] (1971). The Complete Painting of Watteau (catalogue raisonné). Classics of the World's Great Art. Introduction by John Sutherland. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 118, cat. no. 172. ISBN 0810955253. OCLC 143069 – via the Internet Archive.
- Roland Michel, Marianne (1984). Watteau (in French). Paris: Flammarion. p. 269; pl. 284. ISBN 9782080120205. OCLC 417153549.
- Walther, Ingo F., ed. (1999). Masterpieces of Western Art: A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Cologne, London et al.: Taschen. p. 350. ISBN 3-8228-7031-5 – via the Internet Archive.
