Champetre

Champetre
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Fete champetre. French term used to describe a type of painting in which a group of townspeople is depicted relaxing in rural surroundings. Giorgione's Concert Champetre is an example.

Fete Champetre
(Fr., rural festival). A painting of a country festival, for example, Bruegel's "Dance of the Peasants." ...

The most marked feature of late has been the demand for the 18th-century painters Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Pater and Lancret; thus "La Ronde Champetre" of the last named brought L11,200 at the Say Sale in 1908, ...

See also: School, Painting, Movement, Perspective, Subject matter