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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)

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r the older tapestry.In this old tapestry strongrich colours were used. Earlyexamples, either from Beau-\-ais or the Gobelins, showthe fine red browns, the clearcarnations, etc., and this ispartly why these oldertapestry colours faded less.But in the later period, themania for great lightness had… … 16.—The Miller, his Son, and the Ass. Gobelins and Beauvai JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY. 2VS 18th Century.

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