Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher tempered the lightness of Rococo paintings with a sense of melancholy.
Antoine Watteau is known as the first great Rococo painter, influencing later Rococo artists like Francois Boucher and Honore Fragonard. While Watteau depicted classical themes revolving around love and youth, he also infused a sense of melancholy in his works, exemplified by his painting Pilgrimage to Cythera. On the other hand, Francois Boucher, although embodying the light and playful Rococo style, also incorporated a muted sense of melancholy in some of his paintings, such as in The Blonde Odalisque, leading to a mix of lightheartedness and sadness in his art.
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