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His sportive mythological landscape pieces, with such titles as "Feast of Pan" and "Feast of Bacchus", opened the Academy of Painting at Paris to him in 1715; and he then adapted his art to the fashionable tastes of the day, and introduced the decorative fêtes champtres, in which he was afterwards surpassed by his pupils. He was also closely connected with the opera and theatre as a designer of scenery and costumes.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica