Versailles Antique

Lithographic print of the fight of the French frigate Minerva against two vessels and an English frigate on February 2nd, 1779, taken from the book Historical Gallery of Versailles 4...

The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charge...

The Louis XIV style will also reach its peak when the royal court moved to Versailles in 1682.

Many Louis XV style rooms can still be found today in the Palace of Versailles.

Maurice Chabas (21 September 1862, Nantes – 11 December 1947, Versailles) was a French Symbolist painter. Chabas was a prolific artist, and debuted his work in 1885 at the Salon, whe...

In 1902 the firm was authorised by the director of the Palace of Versailles to replicate Marie-Antoinette's celebrated Grand cabinet à bijoux.

In March 1902, the firm was authorized by the Palais de Versailles to replicate Marie-Antoinette’s celebrated Grand cabinet à bijoux.

Signed by the artist "Lucot" In late 1739-early 1740 the Sèvres Porcelain Factory opened in the Royal Château of Vincennes, Sixteen years later in 1756 the factory moved to the vi...

Many Louis XV style rooms can still be found today in the Palace of Versailles.

It is noteworthy that the original creation from this collection by François Rémond currently resides in the Palace of Versailles. The magnificent and rare candelabra showcase in...

The palace is often seen as the German counterpart to the French royal palace at Versailles. This is an optical print, also called 'vue optique' or 'vue d'optique', which were ma...

The original model for this Chandelier was designed by Pierre Gouthière for Le Cabinet Doré in Marie-Antoinette’s private apartments at the Palace of Versailles, where it remains to ...

Il primo modello di questo orologio venne ordinato dal re Luigi XVI al bronzista parigino Brécourt, che già aveva realizzato per lui numerose comande: l'orologio venne consegnato al ...

Ca. 1880-1900 On the back of the pig, there is a name " Versailles" The name is a bit faded by using the case The measurements are 2,7 cm high, 5 cm wide and the depth is 2 cm T...

After the famous 18th Century model by Jean-Henri Riesener, which was originally supplied to King Louis XVI and now in the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Beurdeley, Louis-Auguste and ...

The Louis XIV style will also reach its peak when the royal court moved to Versailles in 1682.

During the Régence, court life moved away from Versailles and this artistic change became well established, first in the royal palace and then throughout French high society.

The Louis XIV style will also reach its peak when the royal court moved to Versailles in 1682.

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Laloue also exhibited at Dijon, Orléans, Versailles, Roubaix, Saint Etienne, Bordeaux, Monte Carlo, Hautecoeur, Angers.

The Louis XIV style will also reach its peak when the royal court moved to Versailles in 1682.

He studied the great masters of the Renaissance and is known for his commissions for Versailles and the royal residences of Marly. In 1716 he created the ceiling of the chapel in Ver...

This imposing table is based on the celebrated example made for Marshal Murat, subsequently used by Napoleon and now in the Grand Trianon at Versailles. Supported by four draped ca...

Many Louis XV style rooms can still be found today in the Palace of Versailles.

Note: The original model of this guéridon designed by Bernard Molitor in 1790 is in the Château de Versailles, and was originally called a Table à Thé.

The Louis XIV style will also reach its peak when the royal court moved to Versailles in 1682.

In late 1739-early 1740 the Sèvres porcelain factory opened in the Royal Château of Vincennes, 16 years later in 1756 the factory moved to the village of Sèvres located outside of Pa...

Sculpted In the spirit of the "Marmousets" where, along the "Allee d'Eau", similar stone groups of frolicking children adorn the four corners of the pond at the gardens of Chateau d...

After his release, he resumed a post in the Versailles army. Throughout the 1870s he was stationed at several different provincial posts.

Upon hearing of the March on Versailles, he disguised himself as part of the crowd and managed to reach the palace, heading straight to the Queen’s chambers and imploring her to shel...

Literature: Meyer, Daniel: 'Versailles: Furniture of The Royal Palace', Editions Faton; Dijon 2002; p. 96 - 101.

Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze, the official style during the reign of Louis XIV (1643–1715), is most closely associated with Versailles. It features grand proportions, harmonio...

Guillaume Benneman was one of Marie-Antoinette’s preferred ébénistes who created splendid and profusely-mounted furniture during the ancien régime for Versailles, the Tuileries and S...

The Riesener Secretaire in the Wallace Collection was originally delivered, along with other pieces, in February 1783 for Marie-Antoinette”s private rooms at Versailles, it was confi...

When Louis-Phillippe refurbished Louis XVI’s bed chamber at Versailles, the torcheres were included in the decorative scheme.

Martinet also illustrated many plays and operas by Voltaire and others, as well as creating landscapes and scenes of Versailles and portraits of royalty and aristocrats.

Martinet also illustrated many plays and operas by Voltaire and others, as well as creating landscapes and scenes of Versailles and portraits of royalty and aristocrats.

His works are exhibited at Versailles (around thirty large canvases for the historical museum), Trianon, Saint-Cloud, Compiègne, Fontainebleau.

This fireplace mantel is made in the manner of the Hercules drawing room mantel in the Palace of Versailles. This monumentally scaled mantel is raised by elegant mottled supports to ...

Landelle’s works are well-represented in museums such as the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the Palace of Versailles, and the Musée de Grenoble in Grenoble, France.

(Text by Martin Hopkinson)" Said to rival the fountains at Versailles, La Grande Cascade is still turned on for a few hours every Sunday in June.

This table is an almost identical copy of Jean-Henri Riesener’s original supplied in 1780 for Marie-Antoinette’s cabinet intérieur at Versailles. In the 19th century’s leading ébénis...

He spent much of his youth in Versailles, moving in 1887 to Paris, where he studied under Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and under Jules Dupre at the Academie Julian.

His work is found in many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Musée Carnavalet, Musée de l'Armée and Musée du Petit Palais in Paris and in m...

Martinet also illustrated many plays and operas by Voltaire and others, as well as creating landscapes and scenes of Versailles and portraits of royalty and aristocrats.

In March 1902, the firm was authorized by the Palais de Versailles to replicate Marie-Antoinette’s celebrated Grand cabinet à bijoux.

Martinet also illustrated many plays and operas by Voltaire and others, as well as creating landscapes and scenes of Versailles and portraits of royalty and aristocrats.

He was one of the few cabinet-makers to obtain authorisation from the Château de Versailles to make in 1902 a replica of Queen Marie-Antoinette’s great jewel cabinet.

The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charge...

The lantern is modeled off an antechamber lantern still situated in the Palais de Versailles which was featured in Henry Havard's 19th century Ameublement dictionary.

Valtat spent many of his childhood years in Versailles, a suburb of Paris, where he attended secondary school at the Lycée Hoche (near the Palace of Versailles).

Many Louis XV style rooms can still be found today in the Palace of Versailles.

The evolution of the intimate petit salon as opposed to the formal, ceremonial state apartments of the past brought with it a penchant for graceful, easily movable furniture, designe...

The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charge...

**Decommissioning After World War I**: Like many other older ships, SMS Ägir was decommissioned following World War I, as the Treaty of Versailles imposed restrictions on the German ...

The elegant design of the table, with its large chequered panels and very fine rosettes, is probably influenced by the style of David Roentgen, who had been supplying furniture to th...

Queen Marie-Antoinette appointed Saint-Clément as a Royal Supplier for her Petit Trianon at Versailles. Here is an 18th-century Saint-Clément hand-painted creamware figure of a youn...

Martinet also illustrated many plays and operas by Voltaire and others, as well as creating landscapes and scenes of Versailles and portraits of royalty and aristocrats.

Martinet also illustrated many plays and operas by Voltaire and others, as well as creating landscapes and scenes of Versailles and portraits of royalty and aristocrats.

Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scevola (1871-1950) A Man writing at his desk, 18th century interior scene Pastel on paper Signed upper right 20.5 x 15.8 cm Framed under glass : 37 x 31...

Many Louis XV style rooms can still be found today in the Palace of Versailles.