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| Keywords: Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Italian Comedians - Getty Museum.jpg 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 <br> 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 <br> The 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 ~ 1720 Oil on canvas Unframed 128 9 x 93 3 cm 50 3/4 x 36 3/4 in Framed outer dim 163 5 x 128 6 x 10 2 cm 64 3/8 x 50 5/8 x 4 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions <gallery>File Antoine Watteau - The Italian Comedians - Google Art Project jpg </gallery> 335970 credit line accession number 2012 5 PD-100 Paintings by Antoine Watteau Paris in the 1720s Historical images of theaters in Paris Pierrot Actors in art Clowns in art White clothing in art male Group portraits with 5 persons Group portrait paintings 1720 in theatre 1720 oil on canvas paintings in France French paintings in the Getty Center Commedia dell'arte | ||||
