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 (1900)
Strange, Thomas Arthur · London : McCorquodale, New York, Scribner · leaf 169
Different Animals before the Bust ofLa Fontaine. 2.—The Grasshopper and the Ant. … DAntin, aided in thisnew task by Jules Robertde Cotte, upheld the fameof the Gobelins until 1736.Under his influence theytook up again and com-pleted the admirable sets of<LHistoire du Roi and thefamous Tenture des Indes,and they executed the twosets of LAncien et duNouveau Testament. Thesuccess…
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