c. 1730
FĂȘte galante
Pierre-Antoine QuillardFrench, c. 1704 - 1733
A fĂȘte galante---an outdoor party involving richly dressed men and women enjoying music, boating, and picnicking---was a popular subject in eighteenth-century French painting. A pupil of Antoine Watteau, who also painted such scenes, Quillard moved to Portugal in 1726 to work for the court of King John V.
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