Fête Champêtre – Rural Festival
Pierre Antoine Quillard (1701 - 1733)
Framesize 64.50 x 73.00 x 8.00 cm
An elegant company enjoys music and dancing in the shade of trees. Two dancing couples hold the attention of those sitting at the table covered with a white cloth, and the two musicians with violin and hurdy-gurdy. Couples in tender tête-à-tête under the trees in the background enhance the atmosphere of dalliance. The concert champêtre was taken as a model for Arcadian scenes in painting from the early 16th century. Quillard’s Fête champêtre fulfils the demand for images of a free, light-hearted life in an earthly paradise, following the example of Watteau’s scenes of flirtation.
HABERSATTER Thomas: Quillard Pierre Antoine, Fête Champêtre – Rural Festival, object description for the exhibition "Masterworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg" (23.2.-3.7.2022)