Antoine Watteau, after. Venetian festivals. Engraving by Laurent Cars. 1732.

Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684 - 1721) was a French painter and draughtsman.Engraver: Laurent Cars (1699 - 1771) was a French designer and engraver. Title: Fêtes Vénitiennes/ Festa Veneta (Venetian festivals) is a 1719 painting by Antoine Watteau, now in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh.Signed, Titled, and annotated in plate: A. Watteau pinxit. Lau. Cars Sculp. Fêtes Vénitiennes Festa Veneta. Gravées d’Apres le Tableau original peint par Watteau / haut de 1. pied 9. pouces sur 1. pied 5. pouceau. / de large. | Sculpta juxtà Exemplar à Watteavo depictum cujus / altitudo 1. pedem cum 9. unciis et latitudo 1. pedem / cum 5. continet. Cabinet de M.r de Jullienne. [Jean de Jullienne (né Jean Jullienne) (1686 - 1766) was a French textile manufacturer, art collector, and amateur engraver, best remembered as a friend and protector of the painter Antoine Watteau]. A Paris chez la Veuve de F. Chereau [François Chéreau, also known as François I Chéreau (1680 - 1729) was an engraver