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SELEUSS Chocolates - Fete Galante Collection - 1

SELEUSS Chocolates (03-13-2019): Our new { Fete Galante } Spring Chocolate Collection, perfect for some champagne pairing in the garden!  This delicious chocolate box is filled with:

- Odalisque Blonde in Pot de Ganache

- Saffroncello: Saffron with Limoncello

- Grand Marnier

- Raspberry Heart (Laderach)

- Passion Fruit (Laderach)

- Orange Blossom Honey

From Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_galante

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/glossary/fte-galante 

Fête galante (French pronunciation: ​[fɛːt ɡalɑ̃t]) (courtship party) is a category of painting specially created by the French Academy in 1717 to describe Antoine Watteau's (1684–1721) variations on the theme of the fête champêtre, which featured figures in ball dress or masquerade costumes disporting themselves amorously in parkland settings. When Watteau applied to join the French academy in 1717, there was no suitable category for his works, so the academy simply created one rather than reject his application.[1][2][3]

Fête galante paintings are an important part of the rococo period of art, which saw the focus of European arts move away from the hierarchical, standardized grandeur of the church and royal court and toward an appreciation for intimacy and personal pleasures. Nonetheless, the lush, outdoor settings of fête galante paintings were often borrowed from earlier paintings, especially from Venetian paintings of the 16th century and Dutch paintings of the 17th century.

One of the most well known Fete Galante paintings was: The Embarkation for Cythera by Watteau in 1721.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Embarkation_for_Cythera

https://silverandexact.com/2011/06/08/pilgrimage-to-cythera-jean-antoine-watteau-1721/

https://www.wikiart.org/en/antoine-watteau/not_detected_229435-1717

https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/pilgrimage-cythera

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/pilgrimage-to-cythera.htm 

The Embarkation for Cythera ("L'Embarquement pour Cythère") is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. It is also known as Voyage to Cythera and Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera. Watteau submitted this work to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as his reception piece in 1717.[1] The painting is now in the Louvre in Paris. A second version of the work, sometimes called Pilgrimage to Cythera to distinguish it, was painted by Watteau about 1718 or 1719[2] and is in the Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin.

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The Embarkation for Cythera is one of the greatest representative works of the Rococo period. The Return from the Market was painted by Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin from 1738 to 1739.