Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité, porcelaines anciennes de Saxe, de Chine et de Sèvres ... bijoux ... dessins et gouaches parmi lesquels huit par Boucher et vingt-deux par J.-B. Huet, composant la collection de M. le vicomte C***, dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot, Salle no 3 les jeudi 25 et vendredi 26 avril 1872 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté pour les objets d'art de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ... et pour les dessins de M. Féral, expert ...

Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité, porcelaines anciennes de Saxe, de Chine et de Sèvres ... bijoux ... dessins et gouaches parmi lesquels huit par Boucher et vingt-deux par J.-B. Huet, composant la collection de M. le vicomte C***, dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot, Salle no 3 les jeudi 25 et vendredi 26 avril 1872 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté pour les objets d'art de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ... et pour les dessins de M. Féral, expert ...
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Science and Polity in France

Science and Polity in France
Author: Charles Coulston Gillispie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2009-01-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1400824613
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By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.

Taste and Power

Taste and Power
Author: Leora Auslander
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520920945
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Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

Work in France

Work in France
Author: Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 1986
Genre: Labor
ISBN: 9780801416972
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Eighteen scholars from both sides of the Atlantic look at the question of work across three centuries of French history. Representing both younger and older generations, they move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to consider human labor as it was actually performed and to determine what it has meant to specific groups and individuals at particular historical moments. This book proposes some fundamental revisions in the history of work which will have important implications for our understanding of social, political, economic, and cultural developments not only in France but throughout Europe.

The Art of Ceramics

The Art of Ceramics
Author: Howard Coutts
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300083874
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The great age of European ceramic design began around 1500 and ended in the early 19th century with the introduction of large-scale production of ceramics. In this illustrated history, with nearly 300 color and black and white photos and reproductions, curator Howard Coutts considers the main stylistic trends�Renaissance, Mannerism, Oriental, Rococo, and Neoclassicism�as they were represented in such products as Italian Majolica, Dutch Delftware, Meissen and S�vres porcelain, Staffordshire, and Wedgwood pottery. He pays close attention to changes in eating habits over the period, particularly the layout of a formal dinner, and discusses the development of ceramics as room decoration, the transmission of images via prints, marketing of ceramics and other luxury goods, and the intellectual background to Neoclassicism.

Everyday Rococo

Everyday Rococo
Author: Rosalind Savill
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Total Pages: 704
Release: 2021-10-28
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ISBN: 9781916495715
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Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sevres Porcelain is a year-on-year richly-illustrated chronology of her daily life and purchases

Utopia's Garden

Utopia's Garden
Author: E. C. Spary
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226768708
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.