# The Festival of Love \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WATTEAU, Antoine]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The statue of Venus, seen at right, is also to be found in the Pilgrimage to Cythera \(Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin\). The sculpture in the Berlin picture is integrated into the overall composition and seems smaller as a whole; it appears curiously isolated and out of proportion in the Dresden painting. The presence of the sculpture in the two paintings was important for the dating of the Dresden work; because the Berlin painting has been dated at around 1718/19, it has been assumed that the Festival of Love was painted at about the same time. Its general stylistic features support such a dating. ## Related artworks - [A Halt During the Chase]() - [A Seated Woman]() - [Actors from the Comédie Française]() - [Actors of the Comédie-Française]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal \(detail\)]() - [An Embarrassing Proposal]() - [Back of Woman]() - [Cajoler]() - [Ceres \(Summer\)]() - [Chinese Musician and Chinese Woman]() - [Chinese Woman of Kouei Tchéou]() - [Diana at her Bath]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()