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 . Dagly, who im-ported into Francethe secret of howto make it, waslodged at themanufactory in1713, and his pro-duction, which tookthe name of Vernisde Gobelins, re-mained a secret foralong time. Amongthe tapestries car-ried out u nderMignard were LaGalerie de SaintCloud, which weredesigned by himfor the grandgallery of thatchateau ; and the!TenturedesIndes,which are number-ed among th
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 . Dagly, who im-ported into Francethe secret of howto make it, waslodged at themanufactory in1713, and his pro-duction, which tookthe name of Vernisde Gobelins, re-mained a secret foralong time. Amongthe tapestries car-ried out u nderMignard were LaGalerie de SaintCloud, which weredesigned by himfor the grandgallery of thatchateau ; and the!TenturedesIndes,which are number-ed among the mostbeautiful seriescarried out at thisperiod by theGobelins. Mignarddied in 1695, andat the same timethe prestige at-tached to the Design for Decorative Panel. Gobelins and Beauvais. JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY. 209 i 8th < Vntury. name of this mastervanished. When Mansartand Robert de Cotte suc-ceeded Villacerf andMignard, the staff was dis-persed, the manufactory dis-organised, the workshopsempty and deserted. Theyappear to have done verylittle, but continued to pro-duce the Tent are desIndes and the Moisgrotesques dAudran. LaterLouis XIV. appointed him-self as director, with theDuke dAntin under
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