The motif was hidden in one of his most famous paintings, formerly called the «Gilles”, kept at the Louvre.
This fierce prankster had placed his portrait in one of his most famous paintings. He appeared to everyone at the Louvre, in the center of the French painting rooms, and yet, like the nose in the middle of the face, we did not see him! The restoration of Pierrot, formerly titled the Gilles, of the king of galantes Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) has lifted the veil. The painting is currently the subject of a fascinating file in the Chapel room (1is floor of the Sully wing) at the Louvre.
This clarification constitutes a sort of codicil to the masterful exhibition mounted in the Napoleon hall, and devoted to the image of the madman from the Middle Ages to the present day. « Beyond the strangeness of the Pierrot in the foreground who looks at us with melancholy – represented full-length, frontally, in his all-white and overly large costume -, here is an enigmatic work par excellence »says curator Guillaume Faroult, curator in the paintings department.
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