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An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth (1903)

Strange, Thomas Arthur · London, The author · leaf 159

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he designs of Charles Le Brun, who,however, left the decoration unfinished. I have shownit here as the furniture, which is mostly boule, belongsto the time of Louis XIV. The decoration of thisgallery was not completed until the years 1848-51.Several of the paintings in the ceiling are by Le… … Boule Cabinet. Louis XIV. walls are adorned withportraits of twenty-eightFrench kings and artists inmodern Gobelins tapestry.The surrounds of some ofthe frame work, instead ofbeing in marble, as theywould have been in LouisXIV.s time, are merelyimitation, which seems ratherpaltry, especially as…

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