# Pilgrimage to Cythera [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WATTEAU, Antoine]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 129 x 194 cm ## Commentary This painting is the artist's restatement of his 'morceau de réception' for the Académie Royale \(Musée du Louvre, Paris\). This canvas, which is slightly later in date than the Louvre's, is not a replica, as it has many original features. Though identical in size, each canvas has its distinct and distinctive qualities. The statue of Venus, seen at right in this painting, is also to be found in the Festival of Love \(Gemäldegalerie, Dresden\). The sculpture in the Berlin picture is integrated into the overall composition and seems smaller as a whole; it appears curiously isolated and out of proportion in the Dresden painting. ## 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]()