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The Embarkation for Cythera
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
A fête galante; Cythera is an idealised destination, not a depicted place.
- Date
- 1717-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Department of Paintings of the Louvre
On view — Salle 917, Aile Aile Sully, Niveau 2
Verified from a live museum source on 2026-09-05
Sources
- Musée du Louvre, Paris — collection record for Jean-Antoine Watteau, ‘Le Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère’, Département des Peintures, inv. INV 8525; the artist’s reception piece for the Académie royale, 1717, oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm. A later autograph version is in the Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin (collections.louvre.fr)
- Pierre Rosenberg & Louis-Antoine Prat, ‘Antoine Watteau 1684–1721’ (exh. cat., Washington / Paris / Berlin, 1984–85)