Poussin, Landscape with the Burial of Phocion, 1648.	Rubens, Le Chateau de Steen, c. 1636.
Rubens, Garden of Love, c. 1638.	Antoine Watteau (1648-1721), A Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717.
Detail of the Pilgrimage to Cythera.
Watteau, Les Fêtes Vénitiennes, c. 1718.	Watteau, Young Lady with a Harlequin.
Watteau, Gersaint's Signboard, 1721.	Details of Gersaint's Signboard.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), The Bathers, c. 1765.	Fragonard, Happy Accidents of the Swing, 1767.
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, Sistine Ceiling, 1508-13.	Detail of Fragonard's Happy Accidents of the Swing.
Fragonard, Musical Contest, 1754-55.
Fragonard, The Swing, 1765.	Fragonard, Girl with a Dog, 1783.
Jean Baptiste Chardin (1699-1779), The Mother's Advice.	Chardin, The Young Schoolmistress, c. 1750.
Chardin, Silver Goblet, c. 1760.	Chardin, Still Life, c. 1760.

Fête galante- elegant entertainment. A term used to describe the subjects of the paintings of Watteau and his followers in which elegant young men gracefully and rather wistfully court fashionably dressed young women in park-like settings.

Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717.	Rubens, Garden of Love, c. 1638.

18th century French art witnesses a debate between artists who advocate the art of Poussin and those that follow Rubens. Through a comparison of these works, document why Watteau can be considered a "Rubeniste." Also note how his work differs from that of Rubens.