[A rural ball] [art original]Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist[1738]zxxHorace Walpole's watercolor after Antoine Watteau's Fête Champêtre depicts two amorous couples being serenaded by a musician. Another young man lounges on a blanket, his back to the viewer, as he gazes at the one dancing couple. Another figure of a man peeps out from behind a tree. They sit in a grove of trees, a small pool at the edge, as sheep graze in the distance; the towers from a town can be seen on the horizonTitle devised by curator.Label verso: A Fete Champetre after Watteau by Horace Walpole From Earl Waldegrave's Collection Signed and dated 1738. Also manuscript notes in unknown hand regarding provenance of watercolor.Dated and signed "H. Walpole 1737" in lower left of image.Date assigned by curator after the watercolor by Watteau of which this work is based.