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 . it is not as-tonishing that underthe superintendence ofLouvois and of that ofVillacerf, his successor,and under the directionof Mignard and of hissubstitute, the Gobelinswere passing through agreat crisis. This crisislasted a long time, and itwas these troubles con-tinually cropping upfrom time to time thatbrought about the ruinand disappearance ofthe celebrated establish-ment. The
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 . it is not as-tonishing that underthe superintendence ofLouvois and of that ofVillacerf, his successor,and under the directionof Mignard and of hissubstitute, the Gobelinswere passing through agreat crisis. This crisislasted a long time, and itwas these troubles con-tinually cropping upfrom time to time thatbrought about the ruinand disappearance ofthe celebrated establish-ment. The personnel waspartly licentiate. Manyof these emerited arti-sans passed over to theforeigner ; others wereengaged in the Kingsarmy. At one period,when the preciousmetals were found to bevery scarce, the gold-smiths were the first tofind themselves with-out work. The cabinet-makers, the painters,the carvers had to seekoutside the establish-ment for the employ-ment of their that, with the excep-tion of the tapestryrooms, where work wascontinued, from thisperiod the grand crea-tion of Colbert hadnearly ceased to times, moreover, ofthese grand works,which called for theco-operation of all the. Design for Decorative Panel. 208Regency GILLOT. First Quarter 18th Century.
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