Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 122
it is on record that at thegreat sale of his collections,at which Louis XVI andMarie Antoinette were large buyers, Gouthiere waspresent out of curiosity to see what prices his workwould fetch. Very little is known about his life :but the melancholy fact has to be told, that thoughon the death of… … SIDEBOARD WITH SEVRES PLAQUE AND MOUNTS BY GOUTHIERE. 352 THE MAGAZINE OF ART. left to die in poverty. His descendants in 1836were awarded 32,000 francs from the property whicheventually came to the heirs of Mine, du Barry.This tale of labour unrequited might be told of toomany of the artists of…
