[Rarebooks] FS: Early Neo-Classicism in France
Joslin Hall Rare Books
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"Early Neo-Classicism in France. The Creation of the Louis Seize Style
in Architectural Decoration, Furniture and Ormolu, Gold and Silver, and
Sevres Porcelain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century"
By Svend Eriksen.
Published in London by Faber & Faber in 1970.
An important work on early French Neoclassic furniture, porcelain,
silver, and other arts, based on a vast selection of photographs and
much documentary evidence unearthed from the incomplete records that
remain from 18th century France (in Paris, for instance, many early
records were lost in the riots of 1871, following defeat in the
Franco-Prussian War). The author notes- "This book springs from the fact
that, in the course of some years' search in museums and private
collections, I have come across a variety of objects which would seem to
stand stylistically somewhere between Rococo and the Neo-Classical
phases -between Louis Quinze and Louis Seize- and I have tried to
assemble information that might increase our understanding of the
artistic developments of that stage. To put it another way, the book is
intended as an aid to the piecing together of a vast jigsaw puzzle which
fell on the floor some two hundred years ago...unfortunately many of the
pieces seem to have disappeared completely...yet no game is worth
playing if it is too easy, and one can derive much pleasure from just
piecing bits of it together".
Hardcover. 9"x11", 432 pages plus 9 color and 499 b&w illustrations.
Light wear, front hinge slightly loose. $250 net.
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