Sentences with word «galante»
The theme is beautifully illustrated by a five-fold screen at Butchoff Antiques, decorated in the early Romantic manner with a series of painted fête galante scenes, and a Davenport ironstone vase and cover, dated to around 1820, on the stand of Janice Paull.
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Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717) Oil / canvas, Louvre, Paris; Charlottenburg, Berlin Part genre painting, part landscape painting, this work (two versions of which exist) introduced a brand new type of picture known as La fete galante.
Jean Dubuffet, La galante poursuite (The Gallant Pursuit), 1953.
Once thought to be lost, the painting — a remarkable example of the fête galante genre — was rediscovered in a private collection in 2007.
Jean - Antoine Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717, Louvre, Paris), for example, was really a mythological fete galante, not a landscape.
A folding screen tries to embrace both the courtly leisure of a French fête galante and native American customs, but it can not be fully at home with either one.