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Fete Galante

Antique Print of 'Fête Galante' made after J.B.J. Pater (1902)
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Fête Galante'. Original antique print on chine collé made after a painting by
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Early 20th Century Prints

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Paper

Rococo Style Steinway Model B Grand Piano Hand-Painted Scenes Fete Galante
Located in Leeds, GB
. Entire cabinet features exquisite, hand-painted scenes in fete galante style. Figures spend time in
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Early 20th Century German Rococo Musical Instruments

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Wood, Paint

19th Century French Oil on Canvas "Fete Galante" Painting After J.B. Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in Dallas, TX
set in the original carved gilt wood frame, the artwork features a typical French "Fete Galante
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Antique Mid-19th Century Rococo Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

German Rococo Four Panel Painted Screen, Mid-18th Century
Located in Spencertown, NY
The 4 panels depicting fete galante scenes within cartouches. old cracquelure to paint, loss of
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Antique Mid-18th Century German Rococo Screens and Room Dividers

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Canvas

Paintings "Courtly Love" and "Inconstant Love", French School, Late 19th Century
By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in PARIS, FR
important paintings on the theme of “Fêtes galantes” and so dedicated to the art of seduction. One
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Antique Late 19th Century French Paintings

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Canvas

Antique 18th Century 'milchglas' Bohemian tureen
Located in London, GB
vignettes of fêtes galantes as well as floral arrangements and is parcel gilt to the rims and finial.
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Antique 18th Century Czech Bohemian Glass

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Milk Glass

Victorian pate-sur-pate white and blue porcelain plaque by Cope
Located in London, GB
30.5cm, depth 0.5cm This charming and delicate pate-sur-pate by J. H. Cope & Co. depicts a fête galante
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Porcelain

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Porcelain

Three pieces gilt bronze mounted Sevres style vase and center Sevres pieces
Located in Los Angeles, CA
yellow reserve depicting a courting couple in the manner of Watteau famed fete galante.The coupe is
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Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Garniture

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Bronze

Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Garniture
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Long Island City, NY
Watteau’s fete galante, surrounded by beautiful raised gilt designs. It is framed by winged female figural
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Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Garniture

Materials

Bronze

Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Mounted Jewellery
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
five finely painted Sèvres style porcelain plaques depicting scenes from the 'fêtes galante' in the
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Jewelry Boxes

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Bronze

Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases and Covers
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
reserves of 'Fêtes galante' to the front and ‘picturesque’ landscapes scenes to the reverse, within gilt
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Antique 19th Century French Vases

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Ormolu

19th Century Louis XV Style Vernis Martin Bombe Vitrine with Serpentine Glass
By Vernis Martin
Located in Madrid, ES
decorative sabots. At center is a hand-painted “fêtes galantes” scene of a gentleman courting his lady
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Vitrines

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Ormolu

Landscape in the Style of Jean-Antoine Watteau, 18th Century
Located in Toronto, CA
as a "Fête Galante". In the style of Jean-Antoine Watteau, the french master of the genre. Newly
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Antique 18th Century French Rococo Paintings

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Canvas

Pair of English Mid-19th Century Porcelain Mounted Thuyawood Cabinets
Located in London, GB
, depicting 'Fête Galante' scenes in the manner of Watteau, within elliptical gilt bronze foliate frames
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Antique 19th Century English Cabinets

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Ormolu

Pair of Exhibition Quality Sèvres-Style Porcelain Vases
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
finely painted panels depicting romantic genre scenes drawing inspiration from Watteau's fêtes galantes
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Antique 19th Century French Vases

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Ormolu

18th Century French Aubusson Rustic Tapestry Panel
Located in New York, NY
at the Wallace collection in London. Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of 'Fêtes Galantes
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Antique 18th Century French Aubusson Tapestries

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Wool

Three-Piece Louis XV Rococo Style Porcelain and Ormolu Clock Set
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in London, GB
of conforming style, each featuring a similar vase shaped body, painted instead with a fête galante
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Antique Late 19th Century French Rococo Mantel Clocks

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Ormolu

Rococo Style Gilt Bronze and Vernis Martin Vitrine Cabinet
Located in London, GB
the glass panels. The Vernis Martin panels are finely decorated with courtship scenes, or 'fetes
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Antique 19th Century French Rococo Vitrines

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Ormolu

Carle Van Loo, La Halte De Chasse Oil on Canvas, 19th Century French School
By Charles-André van Loo
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
example of Fêtes Galantes such as paintings made by Watteau of Boucher? It's also a tribute to Louis XV's
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Paintings

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Canvas

Rococo Style Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain Clock Garniture
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in London, GB
vases. The three pieces are extremely finely decorated with painted cartouches of flying putti, fetes
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Antique Late 19th Century French Rococo Mantel Clocks

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Ormolu

Antique Three-Piece Louis XV and Sèvres Style Clock and Ewer Set
Located in London, GB
porcelain bodies. Each ewer is painted on the porcelain sections with flowers and fête galante scenes of
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Mantel Clocks

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Ormolu

Rare 19th Century English Writing Desk
By Holland & Sons
Located in London, GB
faced with foliate form gilt bronze frames housing Se`vres plaques, a ‘fete galante’ to the centre, and
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Antique 1860s English Louis XV Desks

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Ormolu

Antique Kingwood, Gilt Bronze and Vernis Martin Side Cabinet
Located in London, GB
a courtship scene or ‘fetes galantes’ featuring a young shepherdess and lamb and a couple playing
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Antique 19th Century French Rococo Cabinets

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Ormolu, Bronze

A Napoléon III Gilt-Bronze and Sèvres Style Porcelain-Mounted Bonheur Du Jour
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
with an Rococo fête galante of the marriage proposal; the flanking doors with shepherdesses. The sides
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Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Cabinets

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Ormolu

Sèvres Style Porcelain and Gilt Bronze Jardiniere and Vase Garniture
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in London, GB
front cartouche, signed ‘H. Poitevin’, is skilfully painted with a central ‘Fête Galante’ scene of a
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Antique 19th Century French Rococo Vases

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Ormolu, Bronze

Pastoral Group/Handkuss 'The Hand-kiss'
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Lantau, HK
extensively alongside vases and other ornaments to decorate interiors. Provenance The themes of fête galante
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Antique 1830s Porcelain

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Porcelain

Louis XV Style Vitrine with Vernis Martin Panels by François Linke, circa 1900
By François Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
lower section depicting scenes of les fêtes galantes in the manner of Watteau and framed by fine gilt
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Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Vitrines

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Bronze

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Located in Nashville, TN
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Antique Early 1800s English George III Sterling Silver

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Sterling Silver

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Located in West Palm beach, FL
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Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Decorative Art

Pair of English Painted Urns Mounted as Lamps SATURDAY SALE
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Antique 19th Century English Empire Ceramics

18th Century Venetian Painted Giltwood and Needlepoint Side Table
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foliate motifs centered with an aristocratic fête galante in a lush garden, with the whole raised on
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Puiforcat Masterpiece Sterling Silver 18-Karat Gold Tea Spoons Set 12 Pc, Box
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-1721) is a French painter who became famous for his representations of "fêtes galantes". He is one of
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Antique 1880s French Louis XVI Sterling Silver

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Gold, Sterling Silver

Large Scale French Fête Galante Triptych Painting by Arthur Foache, 1871-1967
Located in Dallas, TX
A unique style of French painting specifically created by the French Academy in 1717, fête galante
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Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

KPM, Berlin, Monumental Antique Lidded Vase in Porcelain, Museum Quality, 1780s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
flowers in relief and hand painted with butterflies, romantic scenery with Fête galante scenes. Museum
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Antique 1780s German Rococo Vases

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Drawing, French School, 18th Century
Located in Kittery Point, ME
Jean-Frédéric Schall (French, 1752-1825), a student of Lepicié and a gifted chronicler of "Fetes
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier French Drawings

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Graphite, Paper

19th Century Illustrated French Hand Fan in Gilt Shadow Box Frame
Located in Madrid, ES
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Antique 19th Century French Mounted Objects

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Mother-of-Pearl, Paper

18th Century Trumeau Mirror with Painting
Located in Berlin, DE
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Antique 1760s French Rococo Trumeau Mirrors

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Located in London, GB
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Paul Denarié, Painting Oil on Canvas "La Fête Chez Thérèse by Victor Hugo"
Located in Beaune, FR
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French Side Cabinet with Court Scene in Vernis Martin by Henry Dasson
By Henry Dasson
Located in London, GB
fluted bronze mounted columns, with capitols of torsade form; the door has a lacquered fete galante
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French Rococo Style Mahogany and Vernis Martin Display Cabinet
Located in London, GB
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Antique French Sevres Porcelain Bronze Ormolu Candelarbra Jardiniere Garniture
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Portland, OR
in the style of Antoine Watteau 'fetes galantes". The centerpiece having large gilt bronze handles
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Antique 1880s French Belle Époque Garniture

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Nice Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Long Island City, NY
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Signed Georges Barbier, Watercolor & Ink on Paper, Art Deco Period
Located in Hudson, NY
as Fetes Galantes by Paul Verlaine and works by Charles Baudelaire. Smaller vertical sheet, 6 1/2
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Antique Oil Painting Manner of Jean-Antoine Watteau The Serenade Early 19Th C
Located in London, GB
credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a
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Canvas

Early 19th Century Tapestry after a Watteau Work
Located in Dallas, TX
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Wool

Pair of Napoleon III Side Cabinets with Vernis Martin and Ormolu Decoration
Located in London, GB
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By Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Opole, PL
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19th Century Meissen Porcelain Tray
Located in Washington Crossing, PA
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20th Century Porcelain

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Porcelain

Rare Small Cabinet on Stand, 17th Century France or Flanders
Located in Paris, FR
an engraving enhanced with watercolors representing 17th century fetes galantes. Val de Loire
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Maple, Wood

Jacob Returns to Canaan, Oil on Canvas Attributed to Charles Amedée Van Loo
By Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Located in Paris, FR
painters of the fête galante, such as Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743) and Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1741
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Large Tapestry Style 19th Century Rococo Wall Hanging
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental 14-foot wide Rococo pastoral fete galante painting from the mid-18th century. This is in
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Fete Galante For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the fete galante you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each fete galante for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, ceramic and porcelain. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect fete galante — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A fete galante made by Rococo designers — as well as those associated with louis xv — is very popular. A well-made fete galante has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and François Linke are consistently popular.

How Much is a Fete Galante?

The average selling price for a fete galante at 1stDibs is $15,995, while they’re typically $189 on the low end and $283,382 for the highest priced.