Excerpt from Drawings of Watteau
Not only did this illusionist, who created a new art out of a renaissance mythology composed of persons and forms borrowed from Italy, succeed in idealising all the shadowy and elegant figures vowed to the cult of Cupid, but with infinite taste, and a rare feeling which transported realities into dreams, he conceived incomparable scenes, landscapes of mysterious fairy - like enchantment, with blue horizons and sleepy lakes of unsurpassable luminosity.
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