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Two ladies, seated, with a child between them, being entertained by a magician who performs tricks with cups and balls. Etching by R. Rhodon after P. Mercier, 1882.

Four blind men and a boy playing musical instruments and singing. Etching by C. Du Bosc after A. Watteau.

A country village: people feast round a table while others walk home in drunken groups. Etching by P. Chedel after A. Watteau.

A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.

John Misaubin. Coloured soft-ground etching by A. Pond, 1739, after A. Watteau.

An arbour, in which satyrs are raping nymphs. Lithograph by W. Nichol, 1841, after A. Watteau.

A woman hunter holding a gun, resting after the hunt, with her game, accompanied by a man with hounds and a man with her horse, within an elaborate border. Lithograph by W. Nichol, 1841, after A. Watteau.

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Jean-Antoine Watteau

Images by Jean-Antoine Watteau

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An arbour, in which satyrs are raping nymphs. Lithograph by W. Nichol, 1841, after A. Watteau.

A woman hunter holding a gun, resting after the hunt, with her game, accompanied by a man with hounds and a man with her horse, within an elaborate border. Lithograph by W. Nichol, 1841, after A. Watteau.

Four blind men and a boy playing musical instruments and singing. Etching by C. Du Bosc after A. Watteau.

Two ladies, seated, with a child between them, being entertained by a magician who performs tricks with cups and balls. Etching by R. Rhodon after P. Mercier, 1882.

A monkey, dressed in human clothing and holding up a medicinal remedy: representing quacks or itinerant medicine vendors. Lithograph by W. Nichol after J. Watteau.

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