WATTEAU, Jean-Antoine
(b. 1684, Valenciennes, d. 1721, Nogent-sur-Marne)

La Boudeuse (A Capricious Woman)

c. 1718
Oil on canvas, 42 x 34 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The close-up view reveals the artificiality of Watteau's world but only enhances its charm. Watteau deliberately used the naiveté of the landscape to echo the childish distress of a little girl in a woman's body.