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Date : near 1764
Material : Oil on canvas
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European Painting
Painting
Area related
France
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Most likely a finished sketch for a theater or ballet stage, this painting transports us to an entirely imagined faraway land. This type of subject was wildly popular in the 1700s because of the European vogue for "chinoiserie", which is loosely translated as "Chinese-esque". The French term refers to themes that evoke distant and disparate places such as China, Japan, and the Middle East. Here Pillement's fanciful world celebrates the diversions of a lush, semitropical landscape and attests to the eighteenth-century French taste for scenes rooted in the pleasures of daily life.
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