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À L'ANCIEN RÈGIME IS INSPIRED BY THE ART OF ROCOCO
Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Le Chat Angora (1780) - Detail
Jean-Honore Fragonard: Fête at Rambouillet Oil on Canvas 1780 Fragonard’s  painting, Fête at Rambouillet,  portrays an idealized and aristocratic view of nature, where overdressed courtiers go out in boats to a picnic. It is an illustration of the insouciance and gallantry that are considered the embodiment of the Rococo spirit.  Significantly, nature here is not the formal gardens of Versailles, but a rather wild, untamed stretch of forest and river. Already, Fragonard is pushing his art toward Romanticism.
Gerrit Dou (Gerard Dou) (1613–1675) – 1650 - A Sleeping Dog Beside a Terracotta Jug, a Basket, and a Pile of Kindling Wood 
Still-Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase 1790-1795 | Oil on panel | 320 x 270 mm Private collection Louis Léopold Boilly | 1761-1845
Lit à la polonaise, vers 1765Attribué à Georges Jacob (1739-1814, maître en 1765)château de Chambord
L’oiseau mort , Dead Bird by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Bosquet of the Branicki Palace inBiałystok, 1750s. Branicki Palace gardens  Pierre Ricaud de Tirregaille
The library as a work of art: library of the Klementinum Praha
Jean-Honnoré Fragonard, portrait of a child
Francois Boucher “Reverie”
Alte Kapelle, Regensberg (by earthmagnified)
Le cabinet de physique de Bonnier de La Mosson,  Jacques de Lajoue 1734 (Blessington, Irlande, collection Beit)
The fountain of Saturn in the gardens of Versailles
Carle Van Loo (1747) - Marie Leszczinska, Queen of France (1703-1768) detail @ Palace of Versailles,  Mars Salon