Decorative painting in the Louvre, Paris, France, (1928). 'About painting (Grand trumeau, petits trumeaux) in the Gallery of Apollo [Galerie d'Apollon]'. Detail of decorations in the Louvre Palace - a pier glass or trumeau mirror is a mirror which is placed on a pier, (a wall between two windows supporting an upper structure). Part of the Louvre was rebuilt after a fire in February 1661, and Charles Le Brun was assigned responsibility for decorations. Restoration work was carried out by Félix Duban, 1848-1851. After P. Gelis Didot. Plate XCII, figs 183-184, from "An
Decorative painting in the Louvre, Paris, France, (1928). 'About painting (Grand trumeau, petits trumeaux) in the Gallery of Apollo [Galerie d'Apollon]'. Detail of decorations in the Louvre Palace - a pier glass or trumeau mirror is a mirror which is placed on a pier, (a wall between two windows supporting an upper structure). Part of the Louvre was rebuilt after a fire in February 1661, and Charles Le Brun was assigned responsibility for decorations. Restoration work was carried out by Félix Duban, 1848-1851. After P. Gelis Didot. Plate XCII, figs 183-184, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]
Size: 3080px × 5394px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 17th, 1920s, 20th, art, arts, baroque, book, bossert, brun, building, centre, century, charles, color, colour, concept, country, decoration, decorative, design, didot, duba, duban, encyclopaedia, era, ernst, felix, felix-louis-jacques, foliage, france, french, gallery, gelis, gelis-, gelis-didot, hellmut, helmuth, indoors, interior, jacques, le, lebrun, literature, lithograph, location, louis, louv, louvre, pierre, theodor, verlag, wasmuth, élis, élis-, élis-didot, élix, élix-louis-jacques
