18th-century French School - Country Party Oil On Canvas Circa 1750

18th-century French school - Country Party oil on canvas circa 1750

Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret, and Jean-Baptiste Pater were the masters of this style of decorative painting in the 17th and 18th centuries.
A beautiful and decorative oil on canvas depicting a country banquet with characters in a wooded landscape.
Elegant mid-eighteenth-century French school circa 1750.

Sizes unframed:  H 20.86 Inches. - W 27.95 Inches.
Sizes with frame:  H 27.55 Inches. - W 34.64 Inches.

In good condition on its original canvas in an antique carved wood frame with old gilding.

A country party was a popular form of entertainment in the 18th century.
Despite the pastoral or rustic connotations implied by the term country party, this particularly popular form of entertainment in the form of garden parties at the Court of Versailles, where the parts of the park intended for these festivities were laid out with follies, pavilions, and temples, often took the form of an extremely elegant entertainment where the guests, sometimes in costume, were entertained, on occasion, by orchestras hidden among the trees.