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 42
36 Louis XIV. CHARLES LE BRUN. Second Half 17th Century. … Gobelins Tapestry by Le Brun. On this page is anillustration of a marblefountain 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,…
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