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À L'ANCIEN RÈGIME IS INSPIRED BY THE ART OF ROCOCO
Palais Lobkowitz Baroque city palace in Vienna
Jean Honoré Fragonard La Chemise enlevée (vers 1770)  (Musée du Louvre, Paris.)
Charlottenburg Palace, ‘the grey room’ : paintings on the wall by Antoine Watteau.
“Le feu aux poudres” by Jean-Honore Fragonard
Jean Honoré Fragonard,  La Chemise enlevée (vers 1770). Peinture à l’huile  (Musée du Louvre, Paris.)
detail of the wall paintings at Schloss Schönnbrunn - Bergl Zimmer In 4 garden rooms on the ground floor of Schönbrunn palace Bohemian Baroque painter Johann Wenzl Bergl (1718-1783) expressed Empress Maria Theresia’s fondness for exotic art, her longing for an idyllic world far away from the court´s etiquette and for Rousseau´s “back to nature” philosophy. In his “Indian landscapes” he mixed three-dimensionality with wild, untamed nature. His fantastic frescos bring India to Schönbrunn; the walls are decorated with palm trees and exotic plants, colorful parrots fly under tropic skies. These wall paintings, which were created around 1777, were rediscovered under a layer of paint in the year 1891. They are a document of the Habsburgs´ interest in exploring foreign cultures. Bergl modelled his paintings on exact drawings of the exotic fauna and flora discovered on scientific expeditions.
Minuet in a Villa Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Date: c.1791
Detail of a portrait an Unknown Lady Holding a Miniature of a Young Man by Jan van der Vaart (attributed to) 1647–1721
Sanssouci palace
Schönbrunn Palace, the Bergl rooms
Madmoiselle Huquier (Girl with a Cat) Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (Paris, c. 1715 – Amsterdam, 19 November 1783)  1747
Concert in the Park Nicolas Lancret, Circa 1738
The Chinese Garden François Boucher (Paris, 1703-1770) 1742  In 1742 Boucher received order by Oudry (1686-1755), director of the Beauvais factory, for a series of paintings with Chinese subjects to serve as a tapestry designs in order to replace the series named “the history of the Emperor of China”, then out of fashion. Boucher does not aim to a faithful ethnological reconstruction, he is more interested in creating an exotic atmosphere . Finally the choice of subjects is artificial and the very idea of an imperial audience  is unimaginable to Chinese etiquette. (PINETTE Matthieu et SOULIER-FRANCOIS Françoise, De Bellini à Bonnard, Paris, Pierre Zech Editeur, 1992, p.120-121)
Francois Hubert Drouais, 1773. Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette
 Hubert Robert  (1733 - 1808) Park by the Lake