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Title Pierrot ("Gilles")
Date between 1717 and 1719
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 184 × 149 cm (72.4 × 58.7 in)
Source/Photographer The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
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JPEG file comment WATTEAU, Antoine

(b. 1684, Valenciennes, d. 1721, Nogent-sur-Marne)

Gilles 1718-20 Oil on canvas, 184,5 x 149,5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris




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Author: WATTEAU, Antoine Title: Gilles Time-line: 1701-1750 School: French Form: painting

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