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 . bert, imbuedwith disgust and suspici-ous of his master, wasfilled with chagrin, es-pecially when Louvois,who wanted his place,took advantage of hisprivilege of constantlyseeing the King to per-suade the latter to lethim succeed this all waschanged. The newsuperintendent was aman of little taste andof no artistic education,and these two defectswere sufficient to hastent
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 . bert, imbuedwith disgust and suspici-ous of his master, wasfilled with chagrin, es-pecially when Louvois,who wanted his place,took advantage of hisprivilege of constantlyseeing the King to per-suade the latter to lethim succeed this all waschanged. The newsuperintendent was aman of little taste andof no artistic education,and these two defectswere sufficient to hastenthe decline of theroyal not only detes-ted Colbert, but carriedhis hatred to his worksand to his assistants. Hewas unable to forgetthe pains that Colberthad taken to raise LeBrun and to developthe grand and prolificestablishment which hedirected. In 1685, whilethe finances were stillprosperous, he had sup-pressed the wiring ofgold and silver in thetapestries, which untilthen had been enrichedwith the precious 1686, by hisdirect order, he abruptlystopped a piece called LHistoire du Roi,for which Le Brun hadhimself madethe designs. GILLOT. iiiilfflii 205First Quarter [8th Design for Decorative Panel. 206Regency GILLOT. First Quarter 18th Century.
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