Labels:bulletin board | reckoner | sky | stairs OCR: Watteau Jean Antoine: French painter or courtly life and pastoral fetes Watteau' success during his life was matched only by the completeness f his eclipse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when Neoclassicism wAS ascendant (the Louvre for example owned only his reception piece, Pelerinage a l'ile de Cythere) During Van Gogh' life, however- thanks to the efforts the Goncour brothers, Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine Watteau wAS rediscovered Van Gogh who was an avid reader of the Goncour brothers, mentions W natieau Neocl assicism wned receptior Cvthere Goncourt