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

Events

• The Ascension Convent in Moscow is renovated by order of Tsar Peter I of Russia.

Paintings

• Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to Cythera

Births

• January 17 Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV (died 1786)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Albotto, Italian painter (died 1757)
  • Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (died 1797)

Deaths

• April 20 Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England (born 1663)
• July 18 Antoine Watteau, painter (born 1684)
• August 3 Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver (born 1648)
• December 19 Bonaventura Lamberti, Italian painter active mainly in Rome (born 1653)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter active in Genoa (born 1640)
  • Francesco Antonio Caneti, Italian miniature painter (born 1652)
  • Andrea dell'Asta, Italian painter (born 1673)
  • Luigi Garzi, Italian painter (born 1638)
  • Giuseppe Ghezzi, Italian painter , active mainly in Rome (born 1634)
  • Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter (born 1663)
  • Jose Risue o, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (born 1640)

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