1721 in art
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Pilgrimage to Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau, captures the frivolity and sensuousness of Rococo painting. (1721, Louvre)
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[edit] Events
[edit] Paintings
- Antoine Watteau – Pilgrimage to Cythera
[edit] Births
- January 17 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV (d. 1786)
- date unknown
- Francesco Albotto, Italian painter (d. 1757)
- Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (d. 1797)
[edit] Deaths
- April 20 – Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England (b. 1663)
- July 18 – Antoine Watteau, painter (born 1684)
- August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver (b. 1648)
- December 19 – Bonaventura Lamberti, Italian painter active mainly in Rome (b. 1653)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter active in Genoa (b. 1640)
- Francesco Antonio Caneti, Italian miniature painter (b. 1652)
- Andrea dell'Asta, Italian painter (b. 1673)
- Luigi Garzi, Italian painter (b. 1638)
- Giuseppe Ghezzi, Italian painter , active mainly in Rome (b. 1634)
- Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter (b. 1663)
- Jose Risueño – Spanish painter helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (b. 1640)