Mezzetin
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Mezzetin, painted around 1718–20 by Antoine Watteau, depicts a stock character from the Italian commedia dell'arte — a scheming, love-struck servant, traditionally dressed in pink and white stripes — singing to an unmoved statue in a garden. Watteau, the great poet of the fête galante, uses the theatrical costume and unreciprocated serenade to conjure a mood of tender, unresolved melancholy rather than comedy.
Watteau was dying of tuberculosis when he painted this late work, and its wistful, private sadness has often been read — however speculatively — as a kind of self-portrait through the mask of performance. Few paintings of the French Rococo carry this much emotional weight beneath such a lighthearted surface subject.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Antoine Watteau |
| Year | ca. 1718–20 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 21 3/4 x 17 in. (55.2 x 43.2 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Rococo |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 30 × 40 cm (12″ × 16″) |
| Medium | 40 × 50 cm (16″ × 20″) |
| Large | 60 × 90 cm (24″ × 36″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
