[Painting • Academism] Duchess’s Garden Banquet

A dowager duchess presiding over an elegant dinner table just before the grand doors are thrown open, set in a formal garden with clipped hedges and marble statues, with silk gowns, powdered wigs, and glittering jewels catching the light; a mirror in the background subtly doubles the scene's elegance, evoking refinement, tradition, and quiet opulence.