As the critic says, poems reflect the atmosphere of courtship of the paintings by Antoine Watteau (1648 - 1721), of which Verlaine might have known L'embarquement pour Cythère, which was already exhibited at the Louvre before the poems were written However, scholars doubt that he knew other works by the painter because most of them remained in private houses. These words are part of a review of April 19, 1869, that the poet Théodore de Banville wrote after the publication of the poetry collection Fêtes galantes, by his friend Paul Verlaine. "Take with you Paul Verlaine's Fêtes galantes and this little magical book will return to you, gently, harmoniously and delightfully sad, the ideal and enchanted world of the divine master of love comedies, the great and sublime Watteau, that the 19th century has just rediscovered"
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