Beaux Arts furniture included chairs replicating models from the Renaissance and sofas inspired by Louis XIV. These pieces filled high-ceilinged rooms that featured tapestries fit for a medieval castle and were illuminated by crystal chandeliers reminiscent of those in European palaces. Leon Marcotte Company created furnishings for the White House mimicking the style of Louis XVI, while in France, cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle reproduced 18th-century pieces that would influence his later Art Nouveau style.
Students at the École des Beaux-Arts in 19th-century Paris meticulously sketched Roman and Greek art and architecture as part of a curriculum that elevated the classical world. This reverence for history informed the architecture and design being constructed in the French capital and beyond, where columns and pediments were joined with elements referencing the Renaissance and Baroque eras, culminating in grand civic buildings such as the Palais Garnier opera house constructed under Napoleon III.
Beaux Arts style, also known as Classical Eclecticism for its flamboyant mixing of influences, made its way to the United States in the late 19th century through American architects who studied in Paris, like Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Follen McKim. They designed monumental turn-of-the-century buildings like train stations, libraries, museums and mansions that featured soaring entry halls and grand stairways with nearly every surface embellished, from mosaic floors to stained-glass ceilings. The luxurious interiors of these Beaux Arts buildings, which weren’t crowded with objects as in the Victorian era, matched this spirit of opulence and embraced the past.
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Victorian Garland and Swag Brass Frame FE
Located in New Windsor, NY
Garland swag and floral elements decorate this brass frame, circa 1880-1900. Foundry stamp on reverse, FE flanking a Hammer. Very good condition. Overall dimensions are 5.13" wide...
Brass
$1,586Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Giltwood Frame, Beaux Arts Style, Fruitwood, France, 1900
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
O/5215 - Antique giltwood frame, very elegant : for painting, but also for mirror. It's not easy to find such beautiful and healthy frames, but I collected some many years ago. Now i...
Fruitwood
$817Sale Price|20% Off
G. Verdey " Life of the French Cavalry Summer 1914 " Watercolour 20th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Large Watercolor depicts the daily life of French soldiers belonging to the cavalry. This scene can be dated thanks to the clothes worn by the men in this work. Indeed, the bright bl...
Paper
Early 19th Century French Giltwood Frame
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Early 19th century French giltwood frame. The inside dimensions 39.25 x 31.25
Giltwood
$2,650
H 18 in W 14 in D 1.5 in
Wonderful French Large Oval Bronze Ormolu Garland Embossed Picture Frame
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful French large oval bronze ormolu garland embossed picture frame with easel back 18" H x 14" W.
Bronze
Neoclassical Style Mirror or Picture Frame
Located in Sheffield, MA
A large rectangular 38" x 48" American Classical style carved giltwood frame for mirror or painting, with boldly carved fluting, and raised square and roundel centre. May be hung hor...
Wood
Period Rectangular Giltwood Italian Salvator Rosa Style Frame
Located in Roma, IT
Salvator Rosa last 17th century giltwood frame. Internal measurements cm 24 x 32.5 Pure example of Italian Salvator Rosa gild wood frame of 17th century. "Salvator Rosa" is the famo...
Wood
French Giltwood Picture Frame
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th Century French giltwood picture frame with incised vine decoration and inner bead border. Warm gilt finish is in good condition with some losses to outer edges, slight corner ...
Giltwood
$1,429
H 21.74 in W 15.95 in D 0.79 in
Antique Art Deco Forged Iron Forged Copper Flowers Mirror Frame Picture Frame
Located in Munich, DE
This elegant two tone frame was created in France in the beginning of the 1920's. A rectangular forged iron frame with ornamental surface is in the centre of this design. Three coppe...
Iron, Copper
Antique Giltwood Picture Frame. English 18th Century
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Lovely Georgian giltwood picture frame Carved pine with shallow gesso and gilt Original patina Internally or sight measures 19.25 x 24 inches. 48.5 x 61 cm Free UK shipping
Giltwood
$571
H 13 in W 8.67 in D 0.79 in
Large Antique Victorian Picture Frame, Brass, France, 1890s, 16 x 22 cm
Located in Greven, DE
Beautiful victorian picture frame from France circa 1890.
Brass
Oval Giltwood Mirror Frame, 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Oval giltwood frame with delicate floral decorations, a cyma molding, and a laurel wreath motif. The multi-profiled structure gives the frame an elegant, classical appearance.
Giltwood
$2,383Sale Price|20% Off
H 96.86 in W 78.75 in D 5.91 in
Large papier-mâché frame, for a picture or mirror, very rich, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Ancient and very large papier-mâché frame, ideal for framing a painting or mirror, very rich hollowed out motif, unobtainable, made of papier-mâché and of this size and well-preserve...
Paper
20th Century Signed Still Life Pencil Drawing
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful, evocative Pencil Drawing Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly Early 20th century Signed at lower right The painting is embellished by a beautiful nineteenth-century la...
Wood, Paper
$3,750
H 51 in W 61 in D 3.5 in
Monumental Antique Dutch Baroque Style Carved Picture Art Mirror Frame
Located in Dayton, OH
Monumental antique Dutch Baroque frame. Great for use as a mirror or art frame. Made of walnut featuring geometric form with extended corners and ornate carved gilded accents over a ...
Walnut
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H 11.4 in W 8.1 in D 1.75 in
Pierre Auguste Renoir France 1892-1924 Original Etching Portrait Berthe Morison
Located in Miami, FL
An etching by Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). This is an etching on cream wove paper, made in France from the original drawing of Berthe Morisot realized by Renoir between the 1887 and 1897. This is the original (Stella 4) dry point impression signed in the plate at the lower left. This was first published by Theodore Durets for the Renoir Drawings in 1924. This was the only original etching of this work. Berthe Morisot was a contemporary and friend of Auguste Renoir and a successful impressionist painter in her own right. She and her sister Edma studied under Camille Corot. Measures: Including all paper margins of 282 mm by 203 mm (11.4 x 8.10 Inches). The printed image is 112.5 mm by 88 mm (4.5 by 3.5 inches). Catalog: In the Renoir raisonne catalogues as Delteil-4 and Stella-4. Provenance: Garrett Galleries, Dallas Texas1998, Encinitas, Ca Estate Sale, 2013, Kaminski Auctions...
Paper
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H 19.3 in W 24.02 in D 0.4 in
Jeanne Asimand Lahaye "Portrait of a Young Shepherd" Pastel 20th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
This charming portrait is by the French artist named Jeanne Asimand Lahaye. It is dated 1911. The portrait shows a young man in profile, looking like a shepherd. It is done in pa...
Paper
Newcomb-Macklin Beaux Arts Style Carved and Gesso Frame
By Newcomb-Macklin Co.
Located in New Windsor, NY
Signed Newcomb-Macklin frame. Newcomb Macklin hand carved and gilded frame. Partial paper label intact. Antiqued carved and gesso Beaux-Arts style frame. Partial exhibition label int...
Gesso, Wood