Fete galante
A term that refers to the type of French painters' tables during the 18th century, which depict the members of the court to have fun (listening to music, dancing and loving) in gardens, parks or rural landscapes. The species, which is a particular form of the fete champetre, was cultivated by Watteau, Lancret, Pater, etc. The term was first used in 1717, when Watteau became a member of the French Academy as a “painter of fetes galantes”.