. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . E thing to have inspired French decorative art towards distinctlynational modes of expression, and, moreover, to have given a definite and homogeneous trend to all decorative detailscarried out during the period. That Louis xiv. wearied of the pompoussolemnity of his style, and gave the inception tothe lighter, freer, and more voluptuous modeassociated with the name of his successor, withits nymphs, rose garlands, shepherdesses, andcupids, can scarcely be doubted when one readshis note upon a drawing of his architect, Mansart:T
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . E thing to have inspired French decorative art towards distinctlynational modes of expression, and, moreover, to have given a definite and homogeneous trend to all decorative detailscarried out during the period. That Louis xiv. wearied of the pompoussolemnity of his style, and gave the inception tothe lighter, freer, and more voluptuous modeassociated with the name of his successor, withits nymphs, rose garlands, shepherdesses, andcupids, can scarcely be doubted when one readshis note upon a drawing of his architect, Mansart:That something must be changed, that thesubjects are too serious, and that youth must beintroduced into what is to be done. You willbring me some drawings—or at least some thoughts—when next you come. Childhood must be wide- BOITLLE TABLE VrlTH FOLDING ^ FLAPS. WINDSOR CASTLE, sprcad everywhere. A comment whose immediate outcome may be traced in some of the fountains and statues of Versailles, and destined to have a vast influence upon Frenchdecorative THE JONES AND WALLACE COLLECTIONS England possesses in the collection formed by the celebratedarmy tailor, Mr. John Jones,—a man of refined taste, who bequeathedto the nation at his death in 1882 meuhles de luxe probably worth nowten times their cost to Mr. Jones,—and in the even more munificentcollection similarly left by Lady Wallace, together with HertfordHouse; a series of French mobiliary masterpieces, moving certainofficial connoisseurs of France to jocularly declare that if France evermade war on England, it would be to reacquire these chefs do&uvres of THE LOUIS XIV. PERIOD 329 her seventeenth- and eighteenth-century artists in wood. They, how-ever, generously admitted tliat as two centuries had elapsed and twofull-sized revolutions occurred, the British had an undeniable right tothe pieces which they had acquired by purchase.
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