The Remedy

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The Remedy

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Jean-Antoine Watteau

French Artist · 1684–1721

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The son of a roof tiler, Jean-Antoine Watteau showed a penchant for drawing and painting early in life. At eighteen he was apprenticed to a painter in his native town of Valenciennes. Soon after, with little money and few possessions, he made his way to Paris, where he made a living by copying the works of Titian and Paolo Veronese. There he entered the studio of Claude Audran III, the most renown

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Date
about 1716–1717
Medium
Red, black, and white chalk
Culture
French
Department
Drawings
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
7ca53d27-4983-42ab-9e23-c317f8c7d7e9

A young woman lies on her bed, provocatively displayed in the nude, while a nurse leans attentively over her, ready to administer an enema. Jean-Antoine Watteau drew the scene with perfect mastery, using a subtle patterning of red, black and white chalk lines to create shadows and highlights. In drawings such as this one, he made this technique, known as *trois crayons*, famous. He sketched the nurse's head twice, trying two different angles over another study of the model's head. Watteau made this highly finished drawing in preparation for a painting now in the Norton Simon Museum. The severely trimmed painting lacks the nurse and severs the nude below her knees.

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