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Pomp and power : French drawings from Versailles / Xavier Salmon.

Title
Pomp and power : French drawings from Versailles / Xavier Salmon.
Author
Salmon, Xavier
Publication
London : the Trustees of the Wallace Collection, c2006.

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Additional Authors
Wallace Collection (London, England)
Description
128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 23 cm.
Summary
"This lavish and beautiful book illustrates and discusses 52 French drawings dating from the late 17th to the early 19th century, all from the extraordinary collection Chateau de Versailles. Together the drawings tell the story of the major buildings at Versailles, its gardens, the court, and the personalities associated with the palace of Louis XIV and later French kings. Among the artists represented are many of the major figures of this magnificent period of French art, including Le Brun, Lemoine, Cochin, Claude-Joseph, Horace Vernet, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Paul Delaroche, and Jacques-Louis David, whose splendid compositional study for his Oath of the Tennis Court, the event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution, is of particular interest". --Publisher.
Alternative Title
French drawings from Versailles
Subject
  • Château de Versailles (Versailles, France) > Exhibitions
  • Drawing, French > Exhibitions
  • Drawing > France > Versailles > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held October 5, 2006-January 7, 2007 at the Wallace Collection, London.
  • "[D]rawings ... of the major buildings at Versailles, its gardens, the court and the personalities ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-127) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 0900785993
  • 9780900785993
OCLC
  • 83796358
  • SCSB-10282633
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library