Versailles Antique

He is famous for his flowers and « Versailles Gardens ». He is also known for his orientalist Works.

In this role, De La Rue presented a group entitled Bacchante qui enivre des enfants and four bas-reliefs of the Saisons to the king during an exhibition at Versailles in 1754. Before...

Jacobs table is now displayed in the Grand Trianon, Versailles (see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et objets d'art, (Paris), 1975; vol.

He moved to the Paris region at a young age and completed a classical education at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles. Encouraged in his vocation by his father, himself an amateur painter...

Julien-Auguste HERVÉ (1854-1932) Toothache, circa 1900 Oil on canvas Signed "JULIEN HERVE" and dated lower right 61.5 x 50 cm Born in 1854 in Basse-Indre, Loire-Atlantique, Julien-A...

He moved to the Paris region at a young age and completed a classical education at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles. Encouraged in his vocation by his father, himself an amateur painter...

View of a fountain, most likely in the Gardens of Versailles. Source unknown, to be determined. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by J.A.

His works are visible at the Palace of Versailles. This type of coffee table is particularly decorative and valuable for the type of veneering and inlays.

Today the largest number of his works are in Laval, but may also be seen at the Louvre, the Palace of Versailles, Musée Ingres, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, Musée de Grenoble and t...

In this role, De La Rue presented a group entitled Bacchante qui enivre des enfants and four bas-reliefs of the Saisons to the king during an exhibition at Versailles in 1754. Before...

Width 15 in, Museums & Collections: Bouges, Chateau; Paris Carnavalet; Paris Louvre; Strasbourg Arts Decoratifs;Chateau Versailles; Wallace Collection, London. Provenance: ...

Designer: Michael Victor Acier (1736 Versailles - 1799 Dresden) Trained as a sculptor in Paris, he received a call to the porcelain factory in Meissen in 1762: he created a large n...

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

., Boughton House The English Versailles, London, 1992, pp. 132-133, pl. 78). In the early 18th century, Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch (d.1732), the daughter-in-law of King Charles II...

Museums : - Rochefort : Landscapes - Saintes : Landscapes - Sens : Henri IV and captain Michaud - Valenciennes : Landscape with waterfall - Versailles : Napoléon being received by th...

His works are kept by many different museums in France including Le Louvre in Paris and the Musée d'Histoire de France in Versailles.

It was especially famous for its gardens, created before those of Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles, and was the preferred residence of Cardinal Richelieu from at least 1633 (when he pu...

His work is varried: from illustrating plays and operas to drawing and engraving landscapes, portraits of notables and scenes of court life at Versailles. He lived and worked during ...

The front panel features a beautifully hand-painted scene after Louis Ducis (Versailles, 14 July 1775 – Paris, 2 March 1847), depicting Torquato Tasso with his sister Cornelia in Sor...

Another painting by Adèle Grasset, a portrait of Canova, is in the Versailles Castle.

Grenada changed hands multiple times throughout the 18th century, finally becoming a British colony in 1783 under the Treaty of Versailles. The impact of slavery and the plantation e...

A notable work is the Entry of General Bonaparte into Alexandria, which is at Versailles. He also painted family portraits and scenes of the upper classes at leisure, which could be ...

Antique Louis Philippe–style furniture reflects a sense of simplicity and the sovereign’s passion for the country’s history, such as his establishment of a Museum of the History of F...

The pilasters are crowned with composite capitals, or rather in the French style, imitating those of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, topped with an Apollo head, a motif almost ide...

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Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) A prominent French Neoclassical sculptor born in Versailles. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and politi...

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).

Much of it was designed and made for Queen Marie Antoinette for the new apartments she created in the Palace of Versailles, Palace of Fontainebleau, the Tuileries Palace, and other r...

The desk, similar to the one used at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, is in excellent condition commensurate with age and use and adorns a rich walnut patina and exquisite bronze do...

In 1729 François Lemoyne was commissioned to paint a huge chimney piece-decoration for the Salon de Paix at Versailles in an attempt to depict King Louis XV Giving Peace to Europe.

Louis Abel-Truchet was born in Versailles in 1857. He enrolled at the Académie Julian in 1890 to study under Jules Lefebvre and Jean Benjamin-Constant.

Having worked in the 1720s for the court of Lorraine, but simultaneously for the court of Versailles, the artist also painted almost all of the Regent's offspring, as well as the cou...

The aqueduct was built from 1685 to supply the fountains of the park of the Palace of Versailles. The aqueduct had to have 47 arcades to the first row, 195 arcades to the second and ...

The Cabinet de la Pendule adjoining Louis XV's bedroom at Versailles takes its name from the astronomical clock designed by Claude Simeon Passemant (1702-1769) and made by Dauthiau (...

It’s a fine example of the Louis XIV style which originates from the reign of the famous Sun King who build Versailles. The elegant proportions are found in the symmetric design and ...

He moved to the Paris region at a young age and completed a classical education at the Lycée Hoche in Versailles. Encouraged in his vocation by his father, himself an amateur painter...

Another work attributed to the artist featured recently at an exhibition in the Musée Lambinet in Versailles. Our painting, conserved on its original canvas, measures 64 x 52 cm wit...

Originally a medicinal and edible plant, Nasturtiums were popularized by their use in Louis XIV’s flowerbeds at Versailles. Monet let large swaths ramble along the paths at Giverny, ...

In 1785 Jean-Baptiste-Claude received the title of supplier of royal furniture, especially for the Palace of Versailles, the Palace of Fontainebleau and the Palace of Saint-Cloud.

At the same time, King Louis was hard at work supervising the construction of his grand new palace at Versailles, and he moved his residence at the Louvre for Versailles in 1678.

At the same time, King Louis was hard at work supervising the construction of his grand new palace at Versailles, and he moved his residence at the Louvre for Versailles in 1678.

The original was sculpted and presented at the Salon in 1783 and is currently located at the Central Corps, Queen's Apartment Marie-Antoinette's Room at Versailles (inventory MV 2123...

He then received orders from Louis-Philippe for the Galerie des Batailles de Versailles, was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1841, and Napoleon III bought hunting pictures fr...

Versailles style, rare and important French Louis XV style commode or chest of drawers stamped 'P.

A 1786 inventory lists more than one hundred Aubusson carpets at the palace of Versailles and a 1789 inventory of all royal palaces describes a great many more.

Museums: Bordeaux, Draguignan, Bayeux, Saint-Germain, Chambord, La Fère, Versailles, Lavaur, Pau, Fontainebleau, Marseille, Montargis…

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 village of Sèvres located outside...

The firm was located at the Palais Royale from 1785, the year of its founding, through the death of Charles-Louis at Versailles in 1865. A shop was opened in London, in 1854 at 296 R...

Each volume is a facsimile of a famous binding ("The original art binding of the official French copy of the Versailles Peace Treaty which was signed by President Poncaré and Pichon.")

His work is varried: from illustrating plays and operas to drawing and engraving landscapes, portraits of notables and scenes of court life at Versailles. He lived and worked during ...

The Courtauld Institute of Art (London), Harvard University Art Museums, the Hermitage Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, Kunst Indeks Danmark, the Louvre, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire...

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 village of Sèvres located outside ...

Louis Philippe commissioned him to paint a large picture for the Versailles gallery, "The defense of Rhodes by the knights of Saint John of Jerusalem", a work completed in 1844, when...

Games tables were highly fashionable at Versailles and the queen organised gambling evenings several times a week losing huge amounts of money.

Many Louis XV style rooms can still be found today in the Palace of Versailles. The Second Empire style, also known as Napoleon III style, is an architectural, furnishing and clothi...

Toile de Jouy, (French: “fabric of Jouy”, )also called Jouy Print, cotton or linen printed with designs of landscapes and figures for which the 18th-century factory of Jouy-en-Josas,...

Museums & Collections: Carnavalet Paris, Louvre Paris, Versailles, Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon References: Le Mobilier du Musee du Louvre pg.99 Le Moblier Francais Du XVIII Siec...

During the subsequent six-week visit to Versailles, Joseph investigated why the royal marriage had not been consummated.

He was a student of David and his works can be admired at various museums, including Chantilly and Versailles. This drawing is poetic with its dramatic staging and play on light and ...

Born at Villepreux near Versailles, Galle served his apprenticeship in Paris under the fondeur Pierre Foy; in 1784 Galle married Foy’s daughter.