Company in the park

Janneck, Franz Christoph (1703-1761)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1744

Height:

41.0 cm  (16 1/8 in.)

Width:

43.0 cm  (16 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on sheet metal

Additional titles

Description

From the website: The signed painting shows a merry-making company in a palace park. Set in the park’s background under a tree is a sculpture of Mercury, the messenger of the Gods, wearing winged sandals and hat, and holding a staff entwined by two snakes (the Caduceus). The popularity of paintings with similar subjects of noble companies making music, dancing or conversing, and merry-making in a park or garden, so-called fêtes galantes spread from France (Antoine Watteau). In Vienna, fêtes galantes were painted, for example, by Johann Georg Platzer (1704-1761). The signed painting in the National Gallery Prague’s holdings is dated to 1744 and can be compared to the Tric-Trac Players (Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz) dated to 1743 (or 1747?).

Iconclass

33C93
garden of Love, court of Love, 'fête galante'
43AA2
private festivities, merry company - AA - in the open air, 'fête champêtre'

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Transverse flute [4093]
Lute [3394]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5715