Pomp and Power: French Drawings from Versailles
Softcover
2006 · London
by Salmon, Xavier
London: The Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 2006. Softcover. VG. Blue & color illus. wraps, 128 pp., BW & color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2006 exhibition featuring "fifty-two French drawings from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, all from the chateau de Versailles, which owns one of the finest collections of French drawings in the world. Never before discussed as a group, the drawings together tell the story of the major buildings at Versailles, its gardens, the court and the personalities associated with the famous palace of Louis XIV and later French kings. Among the artists represented are many of the major figures of this magnificent perdio of French art, including Le Brun, Lemoyne, Cochin, Claude-Joseph and Horace Vernet, David -- whose great drawing 'The Oath of the Jeu de Paume' is a particular highlight -- Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Paul Delaroche." (back cover). (Inventory #: 147584)