Continental School (First Quarter 20th Century) "Fete Galante" oil on canvas unsigned. Framed. 73" x 59" Notes: This fine panel recalls 18th-century vogue for Chinese-inspired works that flourished well into the early 1900s. Europeans were fascinated with the exoticism of the "Orient", with the fine porcelain, silk, textiles and spices that flooded ports with the expansion of trade in the East in the late 17th/early 18th century through the Swedish East India Companies. China, in the imagination of Europeans, was combined with Turkey, Japan and India, a collective primitive other that dazzled and afforded a fantastic reprieve from the mores and strictures of the West. The influx of Chinese goods coalesced with the Rococo style, characterized by exuberant scrollwork and stylized sea-shell decoration couched in scenes of leisure and pleasure with gardens and courting couples (called fete-galantes) its archetypical subject. Marvels from the orient fueled the imaginative decadence of the genre that also flourished in the decorative arts and interior design, creating an abundant demand for Chinoiserie wallpaper, panels and screens, similar to the example offered here.
Continental School (First Quarter 20th Century) "Fete Galante" oil on canvas unsigned. Framed. 73" x 59" Notes: This fine panel recalls 18th-century vogue for Chinese-inspired works that flourished well into the early 1900s. Europeans were fascinated with the exoticism of the "Orient", with the fine porcelain, silk, textiles and spices that flooded ports with the expansion of trade in the East in the late 17th/early 18th century through the Swedish East India Companies. China, in the imagination of Europeans, was combined with Turkey, Japan and India, a collective primitive other that dazzled and afforded a fantastic reprieve from the mores and strictures of the West. The influx of Chinese goods coalesced with the Rococo style, characterized by exuberant scrollwork and stylized sea-shell decoration couched in scenes of leisure and pleasure with gardens and courting couples (called fete-galantes) its archetypical subject. Marvels from the orient fueled the imaginative decadence of the genre that also flourished in the decorative arts and interior design, creating an abundant demand for Chinoiserie wallpaper, panels and screens, similar to the example offered here.
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