French Revolution

The Bourbon kings ruled France from 1589 until the Revolution, and again after it.

Alexandre-Marie-Sébastien de Plœuc was the son of Alexandre Jean Sebasttien de Plœuc (1766-1858) a naval officer, émigré during the French Revolution and prefecture councillor, and h...

At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution. With Repose During the Drill, C...

Pierre-Victor Ledure (1783–1870) Ledure was born in Paris in 1783, the son of Laurent Ledure and Marie-Marguérite (née Lainé); his mother died in 1788—shortly before the French Revol...

Sevres Porcelain may have indeed given the makers of Meissen and Dresden a run for their money by the end of the 18th Century but for the French Revolution. By 1800, the Sevres Porce...

His appointment as royal artist did not keep him from joining the popular side of the French Revolution. His painting surprisingly did not slow down during this period of political u...

In 1789, Moitte, who had always been very close to the philosophy of the Enlightenment, embraced the ideas of the French Revolution and put his art at the service of the new regime.

At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution. With Repose During the Drill, C...

Delamarche's work represents a bridge between the meticulous detail of the Enlightenment and the growing public and educational interest in geographical knowledge during the French R...

With the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, artists and designers sought a new decorative vocabulary with which to aggrandise the Bourbon restoration. With the French revolution and Louis X...

At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution. With Repose During the Drill, C...

At the Salon of 1868, he exhibited his first military painting, The Drummers Halt, which was based solely on his imagination of the French Revolution. With Repose During the Drill, C...

Gold and silver wirework flourished until the time of the French Revolution (1789-99), when fashions changed and the industry went into decline.

This means that while the Enlightenment was beginning to sweep through Europe, this very print was being carefully preserved in a connoisseur’s portfolio. It has survived the French ...

The king supported the development of craftsmanship by reducing the tax on imported raw coral, though he couldn’t start a factory in the town because of the boom of the French Revolu...

He was deeply fascinated by the French Revolution, exhibiting The Old Noblesse in the Conciergerie at the Royal Academy in 1863.

This site was destroyed during the French Revolution, but there are several paintings now preserved in museums, that were part of the original design, such as The Presentation in the...

Sevres Porcelain may have indeed given the makers of Meissen and Dresden a run for their money by the end of the 18th century but for the French Revolution. By 1800, the Sèvres Porce...

Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name "Marceau" during the German occupation of France; the name was chosen as a reference to François Séverin Marceau-Desgravier...

Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name "Marceau" during the German occupation of France; the name was chosen as a reference to François Séverin Marceau-Desgravier...

Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name "Marceau" during the German occupation of France; the name was chosen as a reference to François Séverin Marceau-Desgravier...

Marcel and his older brother, Alain, adopted the last name "Marceau" during the German occupation of France; the name was chosen as a reference to François Séverin Marceau-Desgravier...

A number of the first Savonnerie designs still exist today, having survived the Fronde, the French Revolution, and two World Wars. They have avoided going out of fashion by reinventi...

A number of the first Savonnerie designs still exist today, having survived the Fronde, the French Revolution, and two World Wars. They have avoided going out of fashion by reinventi...

One of the men of the family was caught up in the French revolution. Another lost a leg in battle. Robert Oliver Jones, a successful magistrate, eventually inherited the castle and b...

On the other hand, Marie Antoinette supported the American Revolution in 1776 and the American Revolutionary War, and helped inspire a conservative reaction in France after 1791, whi...

The jacket is rooted in the French industrial revolution and has a strong symbolism of solidarity in France.

Sevres Porcelain may have indeed given the makers of Meissen and Dresden a run for their money by the end of the 18th Century but for the French Revolution. By 1800, the Sevres Porce...

The jacket is rooted in the French industrial revolution and has a strong symbolism of solidarity in France.

The Bourbons ruled France from 1589 until the Revolution, and again after it.

French Charles X period Greek Revolution or Hellenistic mantel clock.

In the early 1790s the duke of Gloucester took Beaumont to London, where he remained during the French Revolution. There he went into partnership with Thomas Gowland and employed Cor...

The imagery in "The Times" likely reflects the turbulent times of the late 18th century, possibly alluding to events like the French Revolution or social upheavals in England. 2.

He was a supporter of the French Revolution, and his political views were reflected in his engravings, which often featured images of popular uprisings and revolutionary figures.

The jacket is rooted in the French industrial revolution and has a strong symbolism of solidarity in France.

Among his classmates were Maurice Boitel and Louis Vuillermoz. He met the French painter Marie-Thérèse Auffray and was influenced by her work.

Perceived as bourgeois for his connections to the court of Louis XVI, he fell out of favour during the French Revolution, although he escaped imprisonment.

French Louis XVI pre-revolution reproduction print in a walnut and gilt trim frame titled: \"Le Port St.

The jacket is rooted in the French industrial revolution and has a strong symbolism of solidarity in France.

Sevres Porcelain may have indeed given the makers of Meissen and Dresden a run for their money by the end of the 18th Century but for the French Revolution. By 1800, the Sevres Porce...

Beyond their visual appeal, these period bergères represent a tangible connection to French history, having survived revolutions, empires, and centuries of changing design trends.

Women were often used as the subject in clocks where learning or technology was involved during this period, indicating the feeling of emancipation for women in the new France after ...

Drawing inspiration from the Elephant of Bastille, a colossal statue commissioned to celebrate the French Revolution and a symbol of strength, resilience, majesty and good fortune, t...

It reflects the renewed fascination with antiquity that emerged in France after the Revolution and during the Napoleonic era, when classical heroism, martial virtue, and physical ide...

Louis XVI Style refers to the style defined by the period in France under the reign of King Louis XVI (1760-1789) — the last French monarch before the Revolution.

Sevres Porcelain may have indeed given the makers of Meissen and Dresden a run for their money by the end of the 18th Century but for the French Revolution. By 1800, the Sevres Porce...

Its 20-inch writing height and properly proportioned knee opening indicate that it was originally made for a seated child. Made during the French Directoire period following the Rev...

During a time of great change in post-revolution France (1790-1805), the Directoire style came about after the execution of Louis XVI.

Louis XVI Style refers to the style defined by the period in France under the reign of King Louis XVI (1760-1789) — the last French monarch before the Revolution.

Sèvres Porcelain may have indeed given the makers of Meissen and Dresden a run for their money by the end of the 18th century but for the French Revolution. By 1800, the Sèvres Porce...

Louis XVI Style refers to the style defined by the period in France under the reign of King Louis XVI (1760-1789) — the last French monarch before the Revolution.

He is best known for La Comédie humaine, a vast series of interconnected novels and stories portraying French society after the Revolution. Through detailed observation of everyday l...

This practice became one of the defining characteristics of Baldock’s bespoke commissions and retail pieces. Following the French Revolution in the late 18th century, many significa...

Sevres Porcelain may have indeed given the makers of Meissen and Dresden a run for their money by the end of the 18th century but for the French Revolution. By 1800, the Sevres Porce...

He reserved his painting talents exclusively for royal commissions, and died on May 15, 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution. 2. A subject in the middle between bambochade and ...

Following the abolishment of the French corporations during the Revolution, they were able to make chairs and other items of furniture as well as cabinet-making works.

19th Century French Henri II Walnut End Table with Hexagonal Marble Top is a remarkable result of traditional French craftsmanship melded with Industrial Revolution ingenuity!

He never really changed his style, whose most famous emblem is the "bird-man" but used all kinds of supports; Folon made murals (Magic City for the Brussels subway, 1974; Waterloo St...

The Louis XVI style takes his name from the last French monarch before the revolution - Louis XVI himself (1754-1793).

His 1870 painting La Partie Carrée (The Foursome) evoked the period of the French revolution. Either because of the radical political associations related to the Paris Commune (which...