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 . Ceilinsf of Boudoir. On page 353 will be found some useful designs for groups of flowers, etc., suitable for marqueterie panelsin the Louis XVI. style by Pierre Gabriel Berthault. Above is an illustration of a ceiling decorated with a circular medallion in the centre, enclosing a figureof Jupiter and his eagle amid clouds, painted by Jean Jacques Lagrenee dit le Jeune. This artist w
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 . Ceilinsf of Boudoir. On page 353 will be found some useful designs for groups of flowers, etc., suitable for marqueterie panelsin the Louis XVI. style by Pierre Gabriel Berthault. Above is an illustration of a ceiling decorated with a circular medallion in the centre, enclosing a figureof Jupiter and his eagle amid clouds, painted by Jean Jacques Lagrenee dit le Jeune. This artist was bornin 1740 and died in 1821. In each spandrel of this design is a moulded and gilt eagle in a wreath. Eachof the coved sides has a classical figure within a circular medallion in the centre, between two carved amoriniterminating in gilded scrolls; in the corners are shells and wreaths. This ceiling forms part of a boudoir whichwas formerly in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, No. 106, Paris, and was constructed for Madame de Serilly, lady-of-honour to Queen Marie Antoinette. It is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and is of the period ofLouis Last Half [8th ROUSSEAU DE LA ROTTIERE.
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