Taking its name from medieval troubadours, the Troubadour Style is a rather derisive term,Havard, Henri, La Hollande pittoresque, Vol. 2 of Les frontières menacées: Voyage dans les provinces de Frise, Groningue, Drenthe, Overyssel, Gueldre et Limbourg, 1876, Plon, google books in English usually applied to French historical painting of the early 19th century with idealised depictions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.