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Definition of Fete champetre

Fete champetre
Fete F[^e]te, n. [F. See Feast.] A festival. F[^e]te champ[^e]tre[F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.

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- A fête champêtre was a form of entertainment in the 18th century, taking the form of a garden party. This form of entertainment was particularly practised...
- But when it entered the Louvre in 1792 it was given the title of a Fête champêtre, a genre arguably based on this painting. It is believed to display...
- describe Antoine Watteau's (1684–1721) variations on the theme of the fête champêtre, which featured figures in ball dress or masquerade costumes disporting...
- Towers (1857), a ha-ha marks the social divisions in Miss Thorne's fête champêtre: "Two marquees had been erected for these two banquets: that for the...
- royal house and their immediate family including Toinette spend their fête champêtre (country feast) at the Palace of Fontainebleau. Contrary to Madame du...
- Berneaud, the secretary of the society, in Relation de la cinquième fête champêtre célébré le 24 mai 1826 in: Comte-Rendu des Travaux de la Société Linnéenne...
- Titian is most apparent in the case of the Louvre's Pastoral Concert (or Fête champêtre), described in 2003 as "perhaps the most contentious problem of attribution...
- outdoor courtly Merry Company genre painting, and anti****tes the French Fête champêtre type of the next century. The subject of this piece is common in Baroque...
- Claude, Poussin (e.g., Et in Arcadia ego) and Watteau (in his Fêtes galantes). The Fête champêtre, with scenes of country people dancing was a po****r subject...
- 1894, Otto had shown signs of recovery and was cleared to attend a fête champêtre at Bamberg where he smashed sixty-five bottles of 'high grade champagne'...