So revolutionary was the work, the academy created a new category, "elegant fates," for it.  
The "Rubenists" faction of the Parisian Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture scored its final triumph with this 1717 work's admission.  So revolutionary was the work, the academy created a new category, "elegant fates," for it.  Featuring baby angels throughout the mountainous landscape, the work portrays the voyage of young couples to the island of love to pay homage to Venus, who is drawn on the far right.  FTP, name this masterpiece by Jean Antoine Watteau.
The "Rubenists" faction of the Parisian Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture scored its final triumph with this 1717 work's admission.  
Pilgrimage to Cythera or Embarkment to Cythera or Embarkation to Cythera