Watteau is by now worn down, perhaps from tuberculous laryngitis; he will die in 1721 a few months before his thirty-seventh birthday.
Images
Jean-Antoine Watteau in the last year of his life, by Rosalba Carriera, 1721. (pastel on paper; 55 × 43 cm (21.7 × 16.9 in); Museo Civico Luigi Bailo, Treviso)