Artist: Jean Antoine Watteau
Date: 1712
Museum: Scottish National Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Watteau shows a young couple in an idyllic woodland setting. The girl rests her arm on the young man’s knee while he examines a sparrow’s nest that he has just taken from a tree to show her. The romantic setting is emphasised by the roses on the rock beside them. The painting was engraved in 1727 by François Boucher for Jean de Jullienne’s book on Watteau’s oeuvre. The print reveals that this painting was originally larger and set in a ‘frame’ of painted arabesques. It was cut down to its present size some time between 1767 and 1816. Traces of the decorative paintwork are still visible at the top of the picture, as older paint used to hide them has become translucent.
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