Jean-Antoine Watteau  (1684 – 1721),

was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet. His nephew, Louis Joseph Watteau, son of Antoine's brother Noël Joseph Watteau (1689–1756), and grand nephew, François-Louis-Joseph Watteau, son of Louis, followed Antoine into painting. The displayed painting is a crop from: The Scale of Love 1715-18.