Design for a wall of a ballroom, Louis René Boquet, French, 1717 - 1814, Pen and ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on laid paper, Four and half bays of the elevation of a wall of seven bays are shown. Steps are to lead downwards into the hall in the three central bays. Chandeliers with burning candles hang in each bay. The upper parts of the backs of the two lateral bays are undefined, but dados are at the bottom. Rich decoration in a kind of early rococo. The wall panels are to show alternatively statues standing on pedestals and flanked by candle brackets and trophies of attributes

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