[Rarebooks] FS: Early Neo-Classicism in France

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

 From our new Books on the Decorative & Fine Arts Catalog
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog378.pdf>


“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.

London; Faber & Faber: 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. [38666] $150


Some Pictures in the catalog-
<http://www.joslinhall.com/Catalog378.pdf>

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