Watteau's Utopias of Music, Dance and Theatre: Visions of a New France

Evening Lecture

20 May 2011

In the Reynolds Room, a John Madejski Fine Room

Jean-Antoine Watteau, 'Two Studies of Women, the One on the Left with Arms Raised; the One on the Right Seated, Pulling up Her Stocking', c. 1716–1717, Black, red and white chalks and graphite on cream paper, 260 x 205 mm. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Photo © The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm Professor Georgia Cowart, Case Western Reserve University, illustrates how the ideal of the theatrical utopia, emerging on the Parisian stage c. 1700, helps to explain certain examples of Watteau's paintings embodying theatrical visions of music, dance, commedia dell'arte and love.

Lecture 6.30–7.30pm

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