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The Embarkation for Cythera (1717). Collection of the Louvre, Paris.
Outdoor celebrations mythological bacchanals, picnics, and the like have been a favorite subject of artists for centuries, as you already know if you’ve been keeping up with us. And among the best at capturing lavish outdoor frolicking, especially of aristocrats, was the French Rococo artist Jean-Antoine Watteau. He not only made a career of it, he practically founded a whole new genre.
Among his most famous paintings is the
Embarkation to Cythera (1717), which shows opulently dressed couples waiting to board a golden gondola (more on that soon). The painting was heralded in its day, as it depicted a period of joyful insouciance after the dark year following the death of Louis XIV. But the era Watteau captured (or perhaps imagined) was brief, and as the
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Isidore Stanislas Helman (background); Nintendo (Tom Nook)
That item is the Phrygian Cap, a seasonal hat (in five different colours!) that will be released in early July to celebrate Bastille Day on the 14th of July.
The hats in question
(Image: Eugène Delacroix (background); Nintendo (hats))
Time for a wee history lesson: the Phrygian Cap, also known as the Liberty Cap, was one of the primary icons of the French Revolution, symbolising the plight of the poor in revolutionary France, and their subsequent uprising against the nobility. You ll probably have heard of that bit, because it s the bit where a bunch of royals and other wealthy nobles got their heads lopped off by guillotines.
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