Focus on this artwork and explain the Analysis.
It shows French aristocrats dressed as shepherds – one couple dances to the right and a young couple court each other on a balcony to the left. The painting also includes real peasants in simpler clothes and with simpler gestures, making it easier to distinguish between them and the aristocrats than in other Watteau paintings such as The Shepherds. Several details are directly inspired by Peter Paul Rubens's paintings: the musician, the man next to him, the shepherd embracing the woman next to him and the dog in the foreground.
The Shepherds