Title

Mural decoration in the Palace of Fontainebleau, France, (1928). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Mural decoration in the Palace of Fontainebleau, France, (1928). 'About 1750...Mural decoration in the "Salle du Conseil" [Council Chamber], Fontainebleau Castle...Painted by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) and his assistants in the reign of Louis XV. Boucher's ceiling-paintings in the Salle du Conseil are dated 1753..."Spring" and "Summer" on the doors were painted "en camaieu" by Pierre, the flowers by Peyrotte, the ornament by Christophe Huet'. After E. Ewald. Plate XCVIII, fig 191, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

Date

1928

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G26_235

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (8,3Mb) / 11,8in x 15,6in / 3542 x 4687 (300dpi)

Keywords

building buildings Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration Helmuth Theodor Bossert Hellmut Theodor Helmuth Theodor Helmuth Hellmut Theodor Bossert Helmuth Bossert Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Wasmuth Verlag Ernst Ernst Wasmuth Ltd Wasmuth Ltd Ernst Deodat Paul Ferdinand Ewald Ewald Ernst Deodat Paul Ferdinand Ewald Ernst Ernst Ewald Christophe Huet camaieu camaïeu en camaieu en camaïeu Huet Christophe Huët Christophe Christophe Huët Alexis Peyrotte Peyrot season interior house houses summer architecture wall walls arts country French France pattern art book spring color golden foliage design decoration decorative ornate Neo-classical chateau palace gold door doors Baroque mural location gilt century gilded inside interior design furniture literature urn concept Fontainebleau twenties stylised country house stately home Chateau de Fontainebleau interior decoration Colour Patterned Indoors Neoclassical Neoclassicism 1920s 18th century 20th century Eighteenth Century Neo-Classicism The Print Collector Council Chamber château Château de Fontainebleau lithograph gold colour Unknown Palace of Fontainebleau Bossert Baroque Era Boucher François François Boucher Boucher Francois Francois Boucher