Versailles Antique

Jean-Louis PREVOST (attributed to) (Nointel, 1745 – Paris, 1827) Flowers in a Glass, Resting on a Book Gouache on paper H. 38.5 cm; W. 30.5 cm Unsigned The biography of Jean-Louis P...

Uno dei più importanti bronzisti e incisori-fonderi del tardo periodo Luigi XVI e dell'Impero, Claude Galle nacque a Villepreux, vicino a Versailles. Svolse l'apprendistato a Parigi ...

The Empress Eugenie commissioned several pieces to redecorate salons that belonged to Marie-Antoinette, and in 1867, she chose to display the Riesener desk in a museum dedicated to M...

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 P...

An almost identical depiction in bronze resides in the gardens of the Palace of Versailles. This pair were sourced from an estate in Scotland.

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 ...

Representation of a woman wearing a crown of wheat around her head and playing the Tam-tam in the garden of a castle, probably that of Versailles, harming her servants.

Restauranteur de Tableaux, 16 Rue Hoche 16, Versailles. The canvas has craquelure and retouches throughout, reflective of age (over 200 years old).

The decoration radiates from the circular central medallion and extends into the geometric corner cornice, likely inspired by palace interiors such as those at Versailles. The centr...

The Rococo designs seen here would have been used for ceiling frescos, plaster ornaments, porcelain painting, and luxury furniture in the salons of Versailles or the hôtels particuli...

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...

Extremely comfortable and versatile, it wouldn’t be out of place in a Versailles parlour room and is sure to shine with understated elegance in any interior.

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...

He lived in Brussels and Bruges in 1898 and 1899, then in 1900 moved to Gerberoy in the Oise, and later to Versailles. Le Sidaner's art falls oddly between that of the late Impressi...

Honselaarsdijk Palace was originally built for Prince Frederick Henry of Orange and was considered one of the most magnificent palaces in the Dutch Republic, inspired by French baroq...

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...

Its luxurious and regal style is typical of grand interiors in Versailles or the Hôtel particulier residences of the Parisian elite.

In contrast to his contemporary Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), however, he was seldom patronized by the court of Versailles, and much of his clientele was made up of government offici...

To satisfy the vast demand needed for Versailles and other French royal residences a new quarry was opened and subsequently named "Trou de Versailles" (hole of Versailles).

Covers on the inside are signed 1777 and Chateau de Versailles with spurious Sevres marks. This design is apparently based on a pair of similarly mounted and decorated green porph...

The wooden top featuring Antique Oak Versailles Parquet flooring. France, circa 1880. In conjunction with article 70925.

He is often confused with Jean Grimou (1674–1733), an unrelated Swiss genre painter whose father served with the Swiss Guards at Versailles. Grimou probably trained with François de ...

Source: Book the VERSAILLES - Palais des congrès - Sunday, November 19, 1978, at 2 p.m.

A fireback of the same model furnishes a fireplace hearth located at the Grand Trianon at Versailles Palace.

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.

Upon his return to Paris, he assisted his uncle Coysevox in making two monumental equestrian sculptures, Fame and Mercury, for the Château de Marly, the new residence of Louis XIV ne...

Each Signed by the artist "Poitovin" 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 ...

Boijmans Van Beuningen): Carriage in the Bois de Boulogne (1909) Troyes (MAM, Pierre and Denise Lévy donation): Still-life with Fruit (c. 1919, together with a room devoted to Dufy's...

Handwritten inscription on the back on the frame: Richelieu - Versailles - jour des dupes by Rossignon 1847. The painter Louis Joseph Toussaint Rossignon, specialist in historical...

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.

Jean-Augustin Franquelin (1798–1839) with work at the Palace of Versailles, pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault. Frame 72.5 x 61.5 cm Canvas 61 x 50 cm Take into account that the colo...

He was active in Paris and in Versailles. Jean-Baptiste Le Paon was at the 1925 exhibition “The French Landscape from Poussin to Corot” at the Petit Palais (number 179 : “Manoeuvres ...

Poidevin, born in Poittevin, spent his childhood in Versailles, where his father held the position of "Assistant Curator of the Crown's Furniture."

Cole also engraved plates for ‘Views of the Several Parts of the Palace or Castle of Versailles’ (1725) for Overton. In 1736 Cole and William Henry Toms engraved the plates for archi...

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

At 15, to prove his artistic vocation against his father's wishes, he made a copy of the painting "Le Sac de la Ville" by Nicolas Antoine Taunay at the Château de Versailles. This co...

At 15, to prove his artistic vocation against his father's wishes, he made a copy of the painting "Le Sac de la Ville" by Nicolas Antoine Taunay at the Château de Versailles. This co...

Louis Philippe, unknown to many, was the one primarily responsible for saving Versailles from falling into ruin, which is a debt owed to him by the entire world!

Acier was born in 1736 at Versailles, he was trained as sculptor in Paris; the sculptor went to porcelain manufactory of Meissen in the year 1762: The artist created many excellent f...

As sculptor to the king, Girardon was a key figure in the decoration of the gardens at the Château de Versailles, and he was later commissioned to complete several important royal pr...

Arrizoli-Clementel, Versailles Furnitures of the Royal Palace, 17th and 18th Centuries, ed.

."** (likely denoting the original aristocratic owner), its subtle wear bearing witness to centuries of careful use **Condition & Provenance:** - **Remarkable preservation**...

Grand Tour Fine Group of Sculpture in Bronze after a Louvre Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt. Diana is represented at the hunt, hastening forward, as if in pursui...

Each signed by the artist "Rochette" 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 th...

Note: The images of the Cabinet doré of Marie-Antoinette at The Palace of Versailles as well as the black and white photo of the original chandelier at Versailles are courtesy of Wik...

One of the most extraordinary achievements of his later career was the monumental commission for King Fuad I of Egypt in the 1920s, a project widely regarded as the largest and most ...

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.

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...

Marie Antoinette was known to wear her own Bague de Firmament almost everyday, its opulence and beauty fitting for Versailles. Condition: Used (Very Good) Weight: 11.4 grams Size: M...

His participation at the Paris 1878 Universal Exhibition was highly remarked with Louis XVI style decorative objects and a table, all made of bronze and considered as a «chasing mast...

These chenets, unsigned as is typical of his output, exhibit his hallmark modeling style and are consistent with documented examples held in institutions such as the Louvre, the Chât...

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 ...

That same year, he received the second Prix de Rome for historical landscapes (won by Buttura in 1837, and Bénouville in 1845), beaten by the Versailles artist Lanoüe. To perfect his...

Preparatory work for the large-format painting "The Battle of Taillebourg," 485 x 555 cm, housed at the Château de Versailles Museum, produced between 1835 and 1837.

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 outsid...

Girardon himself was one of Louis XIV's most important sculptors, conceiving and executing many works for the Batiments du Roi, notably sculpture for the gardens at Versailles. He st...

This table is superb version of the famous royal example supplied by Jean-Henri Riesener in 1771 for Louis XVI and now on display at the Petit Trianon at Versailles. François Linke ...

A pair of this model is recorded in the 1836 Inventory of the Legendre de Lucay collection, and another pair is known to have been commissioned for Marie Antoinette's Salon des Noble...

Louis XIV was especially fond of this color and ordered fireplaces made of this marble for the Palace of Versailles. Fireplaces in the Château de Fontainebleau, and the grand foyer o...