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 45
Louis XIV. CHARLES LE BRUN. Second Half 17th Centurv, … On this page is anustration of a marbleoiintain at Versailles,designed by Mansart.It is sometimes calledthe Buffet andsometimes the Cas-cade, and is an ex-ample of the extendeduse of marble that cameinto vogue during thereign of Louis XIV.Old French marblequarries, closed since theRoman times, were…
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