. Art in France. FIG. 501. ANTOINE COYPEL. ESTHER AND AHASLERIS. (Tbe Louvre, Paris.) ART IN FRANCE. KIG. 502.— COYPEI,.RESCLINT, ANDROMEDA. (The Louvre, Paris.) Boffrand were quite content tobare, and to increase thelight that entered throughtheir larger windows, theyplaced high mirrors overthe followed the ex-ample of wood, andmasonry was subjectedto the same convolutionsas furniture. Greathouses such as the Hotelde Soubise retained aclassic majesty on the ex- way for joinery; marblesand heavy stuccoes werereplaced bv woodenpanels painted in delicatecolou
. Art in France. FIG. 501. ANTOINE COYPEL. ESTHER AND AHASLERIS. (Tbe Louvre, Paris.) ART IN FRANCE. KIG. 502.— COYPEI,.RESCLINT, ANDROMEDA. (The Louvre, Paris.) Boffrand were quite content tobare, and to increase thelight that entered throughtheir larger windows, theyplaced high mirrors overthe followed the ex-ample of wood, andmasonry was subjectedto the same convolutionsas furniture. Greathouses such as the Hotelde Soubise retained aclassic majesty on the ex- way for joinery; marblesand heavy stuccoes werereplaced bv woodenpanels painted in delicatecolours and relieved byslight gilded mouldingscurved at the angles, andexpanding here and thereinto rococo Le Brun andLepautre had accumu- ERSEis lated decorative mouvesuntiringly, Robert deCotte. Oppenord. and eave ceilings and walls luminously
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