Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (1886)
Facey, James William · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 111
of seventeenth and eighteenth century interiors, although relieved of much of the massive character of the original by being more lightly drawn, and by the introduction of free flowing foliage and gracefully pendent floral wreaths, festoons of beaded work, and wavy ribbons intertwining through the… … Fig. 28. — French. Original Design for a Panel in the Watteau manner. school in France during the reigns of Louis XIV., XV., and XVI. It is remarkable for the richness and freedom of its style, and for its choice of pastoral and idyllic subjects; the latter by Watteau have been universally admired.…
Interior decoration · Color in interior decoration · Mural painting and decoration
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