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| Charles Joseph Flipart Gathering in a garden 18th century oil on canvas Prado |
"The artist painted happy lovers or small groups of friends, usually outdoors in blooming gardens, busy amusing themselves or being entertained with music. Often actors still in costume mingle with aristocrats, and are caught conversing, dancing, listening to music, and exchanging pleasantries under tall trees that function as a backdrop."
– from an essay by Daniela Tarabra on the subject of fêtes galantes in European Art of the Eighteenth Century (Getty Museum, 2008)
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| Johann Joachim Kändler for Meissen Manufactory The Thrown Kiss ca. 1736 porcelain Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater Concert champêtre ca. 1734 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Claude-Joseph Vernet View near Sorrento ca. 1745-50 oil on canvas Prado |
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| Antonio Carnicero-Mancio Ascension of Montgolfier's Balloon at Aranjuez 1784 oil on canvas Prado |
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| Nicolas Lancret Before the costume ball 18th century oil on copper Hermitage |
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| Louis-Jean François Lagrenée Diana and Endymion 1768 oil on canvas Swedish National Museum |
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| Angelica Kauffman Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso 1782 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Hubert Robert Portico of a country mansion 1773 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Francisco de Goya San Isidro Meadow with view of Madrid 1788 tapestry cartoon Prado |
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| attributed to Andreas Altomonte Masked ball in Bohemia ca. 1748 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Corrado Giaquinto Triumph of Galatea ca. 1752 oil on canvas Louvre |
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| Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater The Golden Age 18th century oil on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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| Peeter van Bloemen Campo Vacino, Rome 1704 oil on canvas Prado |