Royal Treasures from the Louvre: Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette
exhibition catalog for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco / DelMonico Prestel
French decorative arts reached their highest point in craftsmanship and design between the reign of Louis XIV and the Revolution, beginning with the sumptuous works of art made at the Gobelins manufactory, which was established to furnish the royal palaces, and continuing with the luxury pieces created in specialists workshops across Paris until the end of the ancients régime. …Drawing from the works in the museum’s extraordinary Départment des Objects d’Art, Royal Treasures from the Louvre examines the full breadth of decorative arts in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.
176 pages
9.5 x 10.5 inches
2012
