Watteau canvases: saved from fire and exposed to Chantilly

The Château de Chantilly has just inaugurated an exhibition dedicated to the painter of the eighteenth century Antoine Watteau. Sumptuous paintings capable of not letting appear from their peripetia, as careless as the themes they represent, being him par excellence the painter of the gallant festivals. But a third of the works could never have happened, because the private collector, Lionel Sauvage, asked for the occasion, was victim of the fir…