fêtes galantes
trompe l'oeil
The French Academy (founded 1648)
 

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun
    Palace of Versailles, c. 1680

Antoine Watteau (1648-1721)
    Gilles, n. d., oil

Francois Boucher (1703-70)
    Venus Consoling Love, 1751, oil

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806)
    The Swing, 1766, oil

Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743)
    Louis XIV, 1701, oil

Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun (1755-1842)
    Marie Antoinette and Her Children, 1788, oil

Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753)
    The Residenz, Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany, 1719-1753

Giovanni Tiepolo (1696-1770)
    The Investiture of Bishop Harold, Kaisersaal, The Residenz, 1752-53, fresco