An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . iiiiiiTiiiirihiiimnmlTaiiii Fable iilUlUIlUUU! WWHIIMHIlflJ. JCONTHE CECX QUI CTJS US GOUT UIS^JCK^E.! i ^ ?^v-:l_-- =?- F^b if xx m, ?-- 9.—The Cock and the Pearl. -Against those who are difficultto please. drawings for La Fontainesfables in the evenings spentby him at Vaure Boucherhelped Oudry with designs,which were a great was in business part-nership with Besnier
An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . iiiiiiTiiiirihiiimnmlTaiiii Fable iilUlUIlUUU! WWHIIMHIlflJ. JCONTHE CECX QUI CTJS US GOUT UIS^JCK^E.! i ^ ?^v-:l_-- =?- F^b if xx m, ?-- 9.—The Cock and the Pearl. -Against those who are difficultto please. drawings for La Fontainesfables in the evenings spentby him at Vaure Boucherhelped Oudry with designs,which were a great was in business part-nership with Besnier in theBeauvais factory, and it isreported that after twentyyears partnership Oudryhad secured 100,000 It. ashis share. Some designs of Beauvaistapestry can be seen on thechairs bequeathed by Stephens at the Victoriaand Albert Museum. Oudryhad the superintendence atthe Gobelins of hangingsfrom the Story of Esther,which were designed by DeTroy. This was one of theseries where Oudry brokeaway from the old traditionsof the tapestry workers, hisidea being that the tapestriesshould be, as near as possible,exact reproductions of thepictures in tone and of the results of thiswas increased expense, thepainter, in getting his effects of colouring, n
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