Rococo Paintings
Rococo Paintings
Rococo painting developed in eighteenth-century Europe through light color, flowing forms, and intimate decorative subjects. In France, Watteau painted elegant landscape gatherings and Boucher pastoral scenes. Boucher's The Interrupted Sleep was made as an overdoor for Madame de Pompadour's château at Bellevue. The wider period also included Chardin's domestic scenes, Hogarth's social narratives, and Canaletto's Venetian views, whose concerns differed from French Rococo decoration.
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French Rococo Painters
Eighteenth-century French Rococo painting brought varied approaches to social gatherings, pastoral settings, and intimate narrative. Watteau's fêtes galantes and Lancret's scenes of music and leisure differ from Boucher's pastoral and mythological subjects and Fragonard's lively storytelling, while sharing an attention to figures, color, and the staging of human encounters.
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