Fête galante

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Fête galante (French for 'galantes festival') is a name for a genre of paintings in Rococo painting . Mostly couples in love, dancers, beautiful ladies and shepherds are depicted in a rural landscape with lush vegetation. Often in the form of shepherd scenes with entertainment or confidentiality in the middle of a park landscape. Some of these images are erotic in nature.

Fêtes galantes were mainly created in France in the early 18th century. Well-known painters include Antoine Watteau , François Boucher , Jean-Baptiste Pater , Jean François de Troy , Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Nicolas Lancret .

literature

  • Robert Tomlinson: La Fête galante. Watteau et Marivaux . Genève: Droz 1981.
  • H. Eisenstadt: Watteau's Fêtes galantes and their origin. Berlin 1930.
  • Charles Blanc: Les Peintres des fêtes galantes. Watteau, Lancret, Father, Boucher. Paris: Renouard 1854.

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