Pilgrimage to Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau, captures the frivolity and sensuousness of Rococo painting. (1721, Louvre)

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[edit] Paintings

• Pilgrimage to Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau

[edit] Births

• Charles Germain de Saint Aubin - draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV (d. 1786)
• Charles Joseph Flipart - French painter and engraver (d. 1797)

[edit] Deaths

• July 18 - Antoine Watteau, painter (born 1684)
• Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Genoa (b. 1640)
• Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England (b. 1663)
• Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter (b. 1663)
• Andrea dell'Asta - Italian painter of the late-baroque period (b. 1673)
• Francesco Antonio Caneti - Italian miniature painter of the Baroque period (b. 1652)
• Luigi Garzi - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1638)
• Giuseppe Ghezzi - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (b. 1634)
• Bonaventura Lamberti - Italian painter active mainly in Rome (b. 1653)
• Jose Risueño - Spanish painter helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (b. 1640)
• Grinling Gibbons - English Master wood carver (b. 1648)