Paris: Life and Luxury
Paris: Life and Luxury. This exhibition of works on loan to the Getty Museum re-creates rococo Paris through the fashion, paintings, sculpture, furniture, musical instruments, and books of the period.
Carved, painted, and gilded wood paneling (boiserie) formed the main decoration of walls in important eighteenth-century rooms. This room was originally used as a bedroom or large cabinet in a private Parisian home at number 18 place Vendôme. In its original state, half of the room was paneled: the pier-glass, the window surrounds, and the fireplace wall. The back wall, where the bed was placed, was hung with fabric.
Console Table (left), attrib. to Pierre Deumier, design by Victor Louis and Jean-Louis Prieur, French, Paris,
c. 1765-1770, silvered bronze, gilt bronze, bleu turquin marble top, modern marbleized wood base,
Curiosity Cabinet Object, François Barreau, French, Paris, c. 1800, thuya wood and turned ivory.
In a glass case over the white marble fireplace (right) is a Mantel Clock two Vestal Virgins tend a flame that honors the goddess of the hearth, Vesta.
The elaborately painted grotesque panels by Jean-Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière and Jules-Hughes Rousseau were inspired by the new discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and recall the work of Raphael Sanzio as ornaments in the Vatican Loggia as well as some of the work of Marco Marchetti in the Medici Apartments in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and Pinturrichio's work in the Piccolomini Library in the Cathedral of Siena.
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Paris: Life and Luxury
Paris: Life and Luxury. This exhibition of works on loan to the Getty Museum re-creates rococo Paris through the fashion, paintings, sculpture, furniture, musical instruments, and books of the period.
Carved, painted, and gilded wood paneling (boiserie) formed the main decoration of walls in important eighteenth-century rooms. This room was originally used as a bedroom or large cabinet in a private Parisian home at number 18 place Vendôme. In its original state, half of the room was paneled: the pier-glass, the window surrounds, and the fireplace wall. The back wall, where the bed was placed, was hung with fabric.
Console Table (left), attrib. to Pierre Deumier, design by Victor Louis and Jean-Louis Prieur, French, Paris,
c. 1765-1770, silvered bronze, gilt bronze, bleu turquin marble top, modern marbleized wood base,
Curiosity Cabinet Object, François Barreau, French, Paris, c. 1800, thuya wood and turned ivory.
In a glass case over the white marble fireplace (right) is a Mantel Clock two Vestal Virgins tend a flame that honors the goddess of the hearth, Vesta.
The elaborately painted grotesque panels by Jean-Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière and Jules-Hughes Rousseau were inspired by the new discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and recall the work of Raphael Sanzio as ornaments in the Vatican Loggia as well as some of the work of Marco Marchetti in the Medici Apartments in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, and Pinturrichio's work in the Piccolomini Library in the Cathedral of Siena.
www.digital-images.net/Gallery/Art/GettyMus/Decrtv-Arts/D...