Antoine Watteau - in Popular Culture

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In the final scenes of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, after his journey thorugh the Star Gate, astronaut David Bowman finds himself in a stark room resembling a hotel, with several reproductions of Watteau paintings on the walls. Watteau's work was also a key visual reference for Kubrick's later film Barry Lyndon.

The French film Ce que mes yeux ont vu (What my eyes saw; 2007) by Jean-Pierre Marielle, starring Sylvie Testud and Jean-Pierre Marielle, depicts a fictional academic investigation of Watteau's works. In the plot, Watteau supposedly had a secret love relation with Comédie-Française actress Charlotte Desmares.

In the Nintendo 3DS art-training software, New Art Academy, one of its minor lessons (known as Minilessons) featured an actual three-coloured pencil sketch by Watteau, in which the software was using it as an example of the aux trois crayons art technique.

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