ID: 700001120 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001120	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

The Italian Comedians (painting (visual work); Jean-Antoine Watteau ; ca. 1720; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2012.5)

Note: The Commedia dell'Arte actors penetrate our world with an intense humanity and vivid reality, far removed from the theatrical artifice and caprice of the stage they have just left. Five comedians have just finished their performance in a verdant park on the outskirts of Paris and look expectantly at their audience. Pierrot, the clown in a baggy white suit, is already holding his hat in his hand, hoping that a few coins might be thrown into it. Flanking Pierrot are four other performers dressed as characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, which enjoyed great popularity in 18th-century Paris. Brighella wears a splendid greenish-gold suit and shoulder cape trimmed with black stripes. Mezzetin strums a few chords on his guitar, while Harlequin in a black mask with its horsehair eyebrows and moustache peers over his shoulder. A mock Spanish costume of black velvet with a white ruff identifies the figure on the far right as Scaramouche.

Titles:

The Italian Comedians (preferred,C,U,RP,English,U,U)

Italian Comedians, The (C,U,D,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1720

Creator Display:

Jean-Antoine Watteau [preferred,VP]

painter Watteau (French painter, draftsman, 1684-1721) [500032644]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2012.5

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 128.9 × 93.3 cm (50 3/4 × 36 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

literary (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	commedia dell'arte [300055912]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, comedy (general genre)) (AAT)

	comedians [300025661]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>, performing artists) (AAT)

	actors (performing artists) [300025658]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>, performing artists) (AAT)

	play (performing arts composition) [300201028]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	Scaramouche [901001404]
	.....((Commedia dell’arte characters, Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	Pierrot [901002046]
	.....((Commedia dell’arte characters, Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	Brighella [901002048]
	.....((Commedia dell’arte characters, Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	Mezzetin [901002047]
	.....((Commedia dell’arte characters, Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	Harlequin [901001405]
	.....((Commedia dell’arte characters, Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Italian Comedians	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Italian Comedians, The	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) transcribed http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/258873/jean-antoine-watteau-the-italian-comedians-french-about-1720/?dz=0.5000,0.6865,0.41; accessed 14 June 2012