The Embarkation for Cythera
The story
Lovers gather to embark for the island of Cythera, the goddess of love's birthplace, in an idyllic 18th-century park. Painted in 1717 — Watteau's Salon admission piece, the canvas that named the genre fête galante.
- Artist
- Jean-Antoine Watteau
- Year
- 1717
- Period
- Baroque
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
