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Date c. 1700 - c. 1770
Related Artists Antoine Watteau • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo • Jean-Honoré Fragonard • Canaletto • Jacques Caffiéri • Jean-Jacques Caffiéri • Philippe Caffiéri • Thomas Chippendale • Jacob de Wit • Jean-Antoine Houdon • David Roentgen • Germain Boffrand • Balthasar Neumann • Giovanni Battista Piazzetta • François Boucher • Jean Berain, the Elder • Jean-Baptiste Oudry • Angelica Kauffmann • Dominikus Zimmermann • Pietro Longhi • Robert de Cotte • Jean-Marc Nattier • Filippo Juvarra • Rosalba Carriera • Francesco Guardi • Étienne-Maurice Falconet • Charles de La Fosse • Antoine Pesne • Antoine Coysevox • Johann Michael Fischer • Charles-André Van Loo • Abraham Roentgen • Lajos Gulācsy • Clodion • Francesco Zuccarelli • Paul de Lamerie • Aleijadinho • Ignaz Günther • Nicolas Pineau • Joseph Blackburn • Gianantonio Guardi • Juste-Aurèle Meissonier • Pierre-Simon Fournier • Giacomo Serpotta • Franz Anton Bustelli • Joseph Highmore • François-Thomas Germain • Jean-François de Troy • François de Cuvilliés the Elder

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The Swing
French Rococo chairs
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
Antoine Watteau: Mezzetin
François de Cuvilliés the Elder: Amalienburg
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Copenhagen: Amalienborg
Figure 33: Sinuous, intricate curves characteristic of the Rococo decorative vocabulary: circular mirror room in the Amalienburg pavilion, Nymphenburg Palace, near Munich, designed by Francois de Cuvi
Chelsea soft-paste porcelain vase in the French Rococo style of Sèvres ware with “mazarin blue” ground and a “reserve” panel painting by John Donaldson (after François Boucher), gold anchor mark, c. 1763; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Prague: Golz-Kinský Palace
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