Rococo Paintings for the Dining Room

Here are 23 Rococo paintings for the dining room, painted between 1718 and 1787, with works by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard; the subjects they return to most are groups and gatherings, and still life. Dining rooms have hosted still lifes for four hundred years for a reason.

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Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering), Antoine Watteau 36 × 48 in landscape print (91 × 122 cm), centered 58 in from the floor, 8¾ in above the dining table. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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23 Rococo paintings

Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering), Antoine Watteau, 1718–21, oil on panel

Antoine Watteau Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering), 1718–21 Art Institute of Chicago

The White Tablecloth, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, c. 1731–32, oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin The White Tablecloth, c. 1731–32 Art Institute of Chicago

Allegory of Autumn, François Boucher, 1753, oil on canvas

François Boucher Allegory of Autumn, 1753 The Met

The Silver Tureen, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, ca. 1728–30, oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin The Silver Tureen, ca. 1728–30 The Met

An orange and the bodies of a large fowl and two rabbits on a brown ledge nearly span the width of this square still life painting. The face of the ledge takes up the bottom quarter of the composition.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Still Life with Game, probably 1750s National Gallery of Art

Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?), François Boucher, 1747, oil on canvas

François Boucher Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?), 1747 Art Institute of Chicago

Still Life with Herrings, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, c. 1735, oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Still Life with Herrings, c. 1735 Cleveland Museum of Art

Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, c. 1734, oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Kitchen Utensils with Leeks, Fish, and Eggs, c. 1734 Cleveland Museum of Art

Light from the upper left falls across a glass, a pitcher, peaches in a basket, and other fruit arranged along a brown tabletop or ledge in this horizontal still life painting.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Fruit, Jug, and a Glass, c. 1726/1728 National Gallery of Art

A young woman, holding a knife and vegetable in her lap and wearing a clay-brown jacket over a long, poppy-red skirt, sits on a wooden ladderback chair angled to our right in the center of this vertical painting.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin The Kitchen Maid, 1738 National Gallery of Art

Three apples and two pears sit next to a knife and a luminous, white mug on a tan, stone surface before a muted, olive-green background in this horizontal still life painting.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Still Life with a White Mug, c. 1764 National Gallery of Art

Two women, a man, and three small children gather around a baby sleeping in a wicker cradle near an open window in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale skin with rosy cheeks.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Visit to the Nursery, c. 1775 National Gallery of Art

The Flight into Egypt, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1767–70, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Flight into Egypt, ca. 1767–70 The Met

Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy, François Boucher, 1740s, oil on canvas

François Boucher Music and Dance and Cupids in Conspiracy, 1740s Cleveland Museum of Art

Music and Dance, François Boucher, 1740s, oil on canvas

François Boucher Music and Dance, 1740s Cleveland Museum of Art

In a deeply shadowed room, two women and several children are gathered at the center of this wide, oval painting, looking toward a young man and donkey who peer in over a half-door to our left.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Happy Family, c. 1775 National Gallery of Art

Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1760, oil on canvas

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Portrait of the Marquis de Saint-Paul, c. 1760 Rijksmuseum

Shown from the shins up, two elegantly dressed women and two young boys, all with light skin, sit together on a bench in front of a stone balustrade with a forest landscape beyond in this horizontal portrait painting.

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun The Marquise de Pezay, and the Marquise de Rougé with Her Sons Alexis and Adrien, 1787 National Gallery of Art

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1750, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, ca. 1750 The Met

The Dispatch of the Messenger, François Boucher, 1765, oil on canvas

François Boucher The Dispatch of the Messenger, 1765 The Met

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin The Scullery Maid, c. 1738 National Gallery of Art

From a distance, we look slightly down into a lush park filled pairs and groups of elegantly dressed, light-skinned adults and children frolicking and socializing in this vertical painting.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Blindman's Buff, c. 1775/1780 National Gallery of Art

From a distance, we look down onto and across a lush park filled with elegantly dressed, light-skinned adults and children gathered in small groups as one woman swings from tall trees in this vertical painting.

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