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French Rococo Le Régence and Louis XV

Jean Berain, Grotesques

Régence (transitional era) 1715-1723, Louis XV 1723-1774

Marquise de Pompadour Comtesse du Barry

At home in the Rococo era

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Françoise Boucher

Jacques Blondel, Tuileries Pavilion – Rococo in Architecture

Salon, Hôtel de Varengeville, Paris, ca. 1740

Bureau Plat, lacquered oak, gilt-bronze mounts, 1759

Fauteuil à la reine

Hotel de Soubise, Paris

Hotel de Soubise, Paris

Salon de la Princesse, Germain Boffrand, Paris, 1732

Salon de le Prince

Louis XV study, Versailles – Bureau à cylindre

Salon de Singeries

Chateau de Chantilly

Furniture and Furnishings

Lit à la Polonaise

Lit à la Française

Fauteuil – open-arm armchair Bergère – closed-arm armchair

Armchairs, Louis XV or Rococo style

Duchesse Brisée

voyeuse

Commode, Charles Cressent, ca. 1745–49

Marquetry – art of the ébéniste

Elevation, Juste-

Aurèle Meissonnier

Silver Tureen, Stand and Cover, Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Potpourri Vase and Bowl, Sèvres Porcelain

Savonnerie carpet Toile de Jouy textile

Rococo Design Across Europe

Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany, built for Frederick the Great of Prussia, 1745-47

German Rococo Settee and Chandelier for a Garden Room

Germany

Wieskirche, Bavaria, Germany, Rococo

Monastery at Melk, Austria

Library, Monastery at Melk, Austria

Italy – Rococo interiors

French Neoclassicism and Louis XVI

Louis XVI, reign 1774-1789 Marie Antoinette

Ste. Geneviève, Paris, 1758 - 1789, renamed the Panthéon

Versailles, Le Petit Trianon

Versailles, Le Petit Trianon

Interior, Le Petit Trianon

Marie Antoinette’s Hamlet in the Petit Trianon Domain

Louis XVI Dressing Room, Versailles

Royal Bedchamber, for the Queen

Salon, Hôtel de Tessé – Louis XVI or Neoclassical interior

Secrétaire abattant

Boudoir from the Hotel de Crillon, 1777-80

Furniture and Furnishings

Transitional designs, Rococo to Neoclassical

Jean-Henri Riesener Bureau à cylindre or Roll-top Desk, 1769

Mechanical table, ca. 1761–63, Jean-François Oeben

Mechanical Writing Desk, David Roentgen, 1758-62

Martin Carlin – porcelain inlays

Jean-Henri Riesener, commode, Louis XVI or Neoclassical style (note marquetry)

Bureau à cylindre Secrétaire abattant

Armchairs, Louis XVI or Neoclassical style

Enclosed Upholstered Armchairs or Bergère Louis XVI or French Neoclassical

Canapé, attributed to Georges Jacob, Louis XVI, French Neoclassical