# The Country Dance [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WATTEAU, Antoine]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm ## Commentary This is Watteau's earliest known painting the subject of which recalls the peasant weddings, country dances, and fairs depicted by Flemish painters like Bruegel and Rubens. However, Watteau treated this northern European subject in a Venetian style. ## Related artworks - [A Halt During the Chase]() - [A Seated Woman]() - [Actors from the Comédie Française]() - [Actors of the Comédie-Française]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal \(detail\)]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal]() - [Back of Woman]() - [Cajoler]() - [Ceres \(Summer\)]() - [Chinese Musician and Chinese Woman]() - [Chinese Woman of Kouei Tchéou]() - [Diana at her Bath]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()