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‘Fête galante in a Wooded Landscape’ demonstrates Watteau’s growing artistic ambition, coupled with his increasing frustration with the fête galante as a subject for monumental treatment. The painting is one of a group of five large fête galantes painted by the artist towards the end of his short life. As might be expected with transitional works, the composition evolved gradually. The painting is a larger, earlier version of ‘Les Champs Élisées’, (P389, Wallace Collection). The mood is livelier, yet the execution is perfunctory and the subject appears curiously vapid on the large scale. This work and another now in The Wallace Collection, ‘Rendez-vous de chasse’ were described as pendants in a series of sales in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including those of the comte de Vaudreuil, Cardinal Fresch and the duc de Morny.
Title
Fête galante in a Wooded Landscape
Date
c.1719–1721
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 127.2 x W 191.7 cm
Accession number
P391
Acquisition method
acquired by Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, 1848; bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace, 1897
Work type
Painting
The Wallace Collection
Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, Greater London W1U 3BN England
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