[edit] Events

[edit] Paintings

Antoine Watteau, commedia dell'arte player Pierrot, c. 1718-19, (traditionally identified as "Gilles") (Louvre)

• Antoine Watteau, Pierrot

[edit] Births

• May 29 - Lorenzo De Caro, Neapolitan painter (d. 1777)
• August 25 - Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (d. 1795)
• date unknown - Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes (d. 1793)
• date unknown - Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian woman painter of the Rococo (d. 1776)

[edit] Deaths

• May 3 - Pierre Le Gros the Younger, French sculptor, active in Baroque Rome (born 1666)
• July 22 - Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian landscape painter and engraver from Bologna (b. 1654)
• September - Jan Weenix, Dutch painter (b. 1642)
• September 6 - Carlo Cignani, Italian painter of the Bolognese school (b. 1628)
• October 14 - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht (b. 1660)
• date unknown
  • Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (born 1667)
  • Jan Mortel, Dutch painter (b. 1650)
  • Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli, Italian sculptor and gem-engraver of the late Baroque, active in Florence (born 1662)