His sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as "Feast of Pan" and "Feast of Bacchus", opened the Academy of Painting at Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his art to the fashionable tastes of the day, and introduced the decorative fêtes champtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils. He was also closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes.
In 1703, he was employed as an assistant by the painter ClaudeGillot[?].
In his studio he took contact with the characters of the commedia dell'arte, a favorite subject of Gillot's, and one that would become one of Watteau's lifelong passions.
Afterwards he moved to the workshop of Claude Audran III[?], an interior decorator, where he learned to imbue his drawing with the consummate elegance that has come to characterize it.
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