Louis XV Style
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Louis XV panelled room, French, ca. 1735. This room originally stood in the Hotel Herlaut on the Place Vendôme, Paris. Getty Museum, Los Angeles area.
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Versailles. Cabinet de la Pendule, ca. 1738. Forms part of the "Petite Appartments" created in the 1730s by Louis XV.
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Room designed by Nicolas Pineau for the Hôtel de Varengeville, Paris, ca. 1735. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
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Versailles. A boiserie detail in the Dauphine's cabinet. The colors are typical of the kind of Vernis Martin decor introduced to Versailles by Madame de Pompadour, 1721-1764. Jacques Verberckt.
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Commode inset with Chinese lacquer panels and crowned with a pink marble top. This bombé and serpentine piece is in the fully developed Louis XV, or rococo, taste. ca. 1755.
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Secrétaire, with floral marquetrie in various woods, ormolu mounts, and marble top by Jean Francois Oeben, ca. 1760.
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Versailles. Writing desk of Louis XV begun by Jean Francois Oeben but completed and mostly attributed to Jean-Henri Ríesener. ca. 1769. Note tambour top.
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This Louis XV fauteuil frame was formed of a series of curves, giving an appearance of ease and comfort.
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Duchesse brisée, with gilded wooden frame by Louis Delanois. ca. 1765.
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Sevres porcelain inkstand. ca. 1770. J.C. Duplessis. Gift of Louis XV to his daughter-in-law, Marie Antoinette.
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