French Artist, Banquet in the Countryside, 19th Century, Oil on Canvas, Framed

Description

Antique painting depicting a leisure moment of the French aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century. The composition … more Antique painting depicting a leisure moment of the French aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century. The composition of the scene is engaged by several characters portrayed in the open countryside among architectural ruins, caught in a joyful picture of daily life animated by the carefree joie de vivre typical of the frivolous and worldly aristocracy. Our painting is inspired by the so-called "gallant scenes," a pictorial theme that became so prominent in European painting culture as early as the first decades of the 1700s to the point of almost having dignity as a pictorial genre. It reflects a modus vivendi of the high society of the time, accustomed to the pleasures of life, the affluence of courtly affluence, amidst amusements, whims and various delights. The clothes are those of the 18th-century tradition even though the painting was made in the second half of the 19th century in an almost nostalgic key. The canvas is embellished with a beautiful French wood frame gilded in gold leaf coeval with the same. Provenance: 19th-century France. Measurements: 80x92cm. Document: Certificate of Authenticity. less