Versailles Antique

Modeled after the famous antique Roman sculptures Apollo Belvedere and Diana of Versailles, they were considered the highest ideal of art during the 19th century.

Following this a large proportion of his best work as a designer and chaser in bronze was executed for commissions to the crown at Versailles, Fontainebleau, Marly, Compiègne, Choisy...

In 1902 Maison Millet was authorised by the director of the Palais de Versailles to replicate Marie-Antoinette's celebrated Grand Cabinet à bijoux.

Around 1775-1780, 99cm; L. 88cm; l. 49cm - N ° 49 - Nissim-de-Camondo Museum Large chest of drawers - Château de Versailles Large 6-foot chest of drawers - Wallace Collection Small...

In October, Louis and his family were forced by the mob to return to Paris from their palace at Versailles. In June 1791, they attempted to escape, which was considered proof of Loui...

Unlike its predecessor, Louis XV furniture was designed not for the vast palace stateroom of Versailles, but for the smaller more intimate salons.

Louis Abel-Truchet was a major French painter, etcher and lithographer of his time. He born in Versailles in 1857. He is well known for his paintings portraying turn of the century l...

Tilliard was soon supplying the royal residences with suites of furniture, including those for the queen's apartments and the king's bedroom and cabinet at the palace of Versailles. ...

Born on 16 August 1775 in Versailles, Louis-Antoine d'Artois followed his parents into emigration on 16 July 1789.

Jules Girardet was born on 10 April, 1856 at Versailles, Paris to the Swiss artist and engraver Paul Armand Girardet (1821–1893) and Louise ‘Alexandrine’ Anne Sandoz.

They were made in 1783 for Versailles, and incorporated lacquer panels alongside opulent bronze mounts.

With inset engraved views of the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, the Trianon, Versailles and St. Cloud. This print orginates from 'Atlas Historique'.

The two espagnolettes, with sheathed busts of women holding garlands of flowers, seem to evoke the sculptures that adorn the front of Marie Antoinette ’s Theater at the Petit Trianon...

A similar clock (now missing its lyre) is in the French National Collection at the Palace of Versailles, inventory number GML-11320-000, entitled Pendule au génie de la musique.

Another painting by Adèle Grasset, a portrait of Canova, is in the Versailles Castle. Please note that the graphite drawing here presented is unsigned.

The decoration of the private apartments, the fashion for which Louis XV had promoted at Versailles and Fontainebleau, offered little opportunity to excel in this area.

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859 - 1938, France): French painter and illustrator, was born in Versailles on August 2, 1859. He prepared to enter the world of art by studying with th...

A comparable pair of candelabras with quite similar Victory figures was executed by the famous bronze-maker Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) 1832 for the Grand Trianon in Versaill...

Pillement served as a court painter to Marie-Antoinette at Versailles. Working at the height of the European vogue for chinoiserie--a style in which Westerners employed exotic Chines...

Design: Michel Victor Acier (1736-1799) / model C 60 created 1770 The sculptor was born at Versailles / France. He had studied Art of Sculpture in Paris and was appointed as sculpt...

Although our drawing is unusual in that it was not used in the final composition, its execution by Nattier was recognised by Xavier Salmon , the author of the catalogue of the Versai...

Sevres was also conveniently near the home of Madame de Pompadour and the King's own Palace at Versailles. From the outset the king's clear aim was to produce Sevres Porcelain that ...

Sevres was also conveniently near the home of Madame de Pompadour and the King's own Palace at Versailles. From the outset the king's clear aim was to produce Sevres Porcelain that ...

He remained an ardent Bonapartist, and his most important work was the huge Gallery of Battles at Versailles, painted for Louis Philippe. A portrait of Napoleon and four battlepieces...

The company was originally established in Vincennes but was moved at the request of Madame de Pompadour, in 1756, to Sèvres, near Versailles, so that its operations would be closer t...

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, the fashionable and extremely popular Spanish portraitist of the Belle Époque, was born in Rome on July 24, 1841 and died at his residence in Versaille...

Works by Gribelin can be found in important international museums and collections, such as Versailles, The British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Two marbles which were omnipresent in famous 17th century buildings as Versailles. The general proportions and detailed craftsmanship emphasize the quality of this extraordinary man...

Sevres was also conveniently near the home of Madame de Pompadour and the King's own Palace at Versailles. From the outset the king's clear aim was to produce Sevres Porcelain that ...

In 1728, he was commissioned by Louis XV to paint the ceiling of the Salon d’Hercule at Versailles, which he worked on from 1733- 36. The work received great praise and ultimately Le...

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 firm was so highly regarded that in 1902 the Palace of Versailles commissioned them to replicate Marie Antoinette's famous Armoire à Bijoux.

The painter stayed from 1911 in Paris, where he often painted the Versailles region, also worked and lived  for some time in Brittany.

His furniture was much copied during the nineteenth century, in particular the 'Bureau du Roi' at Versailles, of which a superb version was made for the 4th Marquess of Hertford and ...

Design: Michel Victor Acier (1736-1799) / model C 47 created 1768-1770 The sculptor was born at Versailles / France. He had studied Art of Sculpture in Paris and was appointed as s...

Bears the makers mark, Finot a Versailles. The dial supporting a reclining bronze classical muse on a rectangular white Carrara marble base decorated by a row of gilt bronze beads, t...

His furniture was much copied during the nineteenth century, in particular the 'Bureau du Roi' at Versailles, of which a superb version was made for the 4th Marquess of Hertford and ...

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse (1859 - 1938, France): French painter and illustrator, was born in Versailles on August 2, 1859. He prepared to enter the world of art by studying with th...

Design: Michel Victor Acier (1736-1799) / model G 32 created 1780 The sculptor was born at Versailles / France. He had studied Art of Sculpture in Paris and was appointed as sculpt...

His works are preserved in numerous private collections around the world and in important institutions (Louvre Museum, Versailles, Notre-Dame de Rouen Cathedral, National Gallery of ...

This commode is after of the celebrated model delivered in 1775 by Jean-Henri Riesener to King Louis XV for his private apartments at the Château de Versailles. It is now in the Musé...

Influenced by Classical masters such as Michelangelo, he often sculpted directly from life or by casting his model’s faces. He was born in Versailles, France on March 25, 1741, and a...

After that he studied at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where Gorham lured him back to work in Providence, where he created some of the most exquisitely die stamped patterns ever m...

During the 1760s, Pajou worked on numerous official commissions including the decoration of the Salle de l'Opéra at Versailles, the Palais-Royal, and the Palais de Justice.

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

Beurdeley was evoking the opulence of the Sun King and Versailles through the size, materials, and quality of the candelabra, but from a 19th century point of view.

Three virtually identical clocks are in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace. A fourth is at Versailles (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.

Meissen stunning tall figurine group: the bucolic festival (seven figurines) MEASURES: height: 14.56 inches diameter of base: 7.87 inches Manufactory: Meissen Hallmarked: Blue ...

In 1826 he became a curator at the Louvre and later worked at Versailles.

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

In 1850 he taught drawing at the agricultural school at Versailles and, from 1854 until his death, he was master of zoological drawing at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, where the y...

The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory was founded to the east of Paris in the disused Royal Château of Vincennes, late in 1739-1740. and moved to the village of Sèvres, west of Paris in 1...

Sevres was also conveniently near the home of Madame de Pompadour and the King's own Palace at Versailles. From the outset the king's clear aim was to produce Sevres Porcelain that ...

In 1681, Coronelli moved to Paris, where he would remain two years: here the fame of Coronelli as "master in the production of Globes" became famous throughout Europe, so much so tha...

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...

After that he studied at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where Gorham lured him back to work in Providence, where he created some of the most exquisitely die stamped patterns ever m...

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

The goat head terminals to each candlearm are based on the design by Pierre Gouthière for a pair of appliqués made for the Salon Trianon at Versailles for Marie Antoinette. A prelimi...

The original painting by Tocque hangs in Versailles. Abel François Loisson, Marquis de Marigny, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils, Commandeur de ses Ordres, Directeur et Ordonnateur ...

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, the fashionable and extremely popular Spanish portraitist of the Belle Époque, was born in Rome on July 24, 1841 and died at his residence in Versaille...