. Art in France. e famous Ambassadors Staircase to arrange some apartments inthe new taste; his council chamber at Fontainebleau was decoratedwith paintings by Boucher and Van Loo. After the Due dAntin,who re-established those relations between art and the State, whichhad become somewhat relaxed at the close of Louis XlVs reign,the successive comptrollers of the royal buildings, Tournehem,Marigny, and Angivillers, carried out their functions actively and intelligently, thanks to Colbertsinstitutions. The Beauvais fac-tories never produced morecharming tapestries than whenthey were directed by
. Art in France. e famous Ambassadors Staircase to arrange some apartments inthe new taste; his council chamber at Fontainebleau was decoratedwith paintings by Boucher and Van Loo. After the Due dAntin,who re-established those relations between art and the State, whichhad become somewhat relaxed at the close of Louis XlVs reign,the successive comptrollers of the royal buildings, Tournehem,Marigny, and Angivillers, carried out their functions actively and intelligently, thanks to Colbertsinstitutions. The Beauvais fac-tories never produced morecharming tapestries than whenthey were directed by thepainter J. B. Oudry (Fig. 540,541) and the china of the royalfactory of Sevres was exquisitelycharacteristic of the Louis XVstyle. Marigny had revived anidea much in favour with formerkings, who had often commis-sioned landscape-painters todepict the cities and castles ofFrance. He caused JosephVernet to paint the principalFrench sea-ports, at the verytime when the Seven YearsWar had drawn away all their259 s2. FIG. 541.—OUDRY. LOUIS XV {Photo. Fcnaillc.) ART IN FRANCE
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