Rococo Painting

Rococo painting is an eighteenth-century approach associated especially with French decorative art and intimate narratives in gardens or interiors. Light colors, curving contours, foliage, and fabric often connect figures with their settings. Watteau's fêtes galantes use music, theatrical costume, and small gestures to suggest relationships without a complete story. Boucher's pastoral and mythological scenes could serve as designs for furnishings, while Fragonard's The Progress of Love unfolds across a decorative series.