Author: Hôtel Drouot (Paris, França)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Succession de la Marquise de X...
Author: Hôtel Drouot (Paris, França)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Succession de Mme la marquise de X....
Author: Causeries de la Marquise
Author: marquise de San Carlos de PédrosoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan (Complete)
Author: Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan (Complete)Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465539522
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
The reign of the King who now so happily and so gloriously rules over France will one day exercise the talent of the most skilful historians. But these men of genius, deprived of the advantage of seeing the great monarch whose portrait they fain would draw, will search everywhere among the souvenirs of contemporaries and base their judgments upon our testimony. It is this great consideration which has made me determined to devote some of my hours of leisure to narrating, in these accurate and truthful Memoirs, the events of which I myself am witness. Naturally enough, the position which I fill at the great theatre of the Court has made me the object of much false admiration, and much real satire. Many men who owed to me their elevation or their success have defamed me; many women have belittled my position after vain efforts to secure the King's regard. In what I now write, scant notice will be taken of all such ingratitude. Before my establishment at Court I had met with hypocrisy of this sort in the world; and a man must, indeed, be reckless of expense who daily entertains at his board a score of insolent detractors. I have too much wit to be blind to the fact that I am not precisely in my proper place. But, all things considered, I flatter myself that posterity will let certain weighty circumstances tell in my favour. An accomplished monarch, to greet whom the Queen of Sheba would have come from the uttermost ends of the earth, has deemed me worthy of his entertainment, and has found amusement in my society. He has told me of the esteem which the French have for Gabrielle d'Estrees, and, like that of Gabrielle, my heart has let itself be captured, not by a great king, but by the most honest man of his realm. To France, Gabrielle gave the Vendome, to-day our support. The princes, my sons, give promise of virtues as excellent, and will be worthy to aspire to destinies as noble. It is my desire and my duty to give no thought to my private griefs begotten of an ill-assorted marriage. May the King ever be adored by his people; may my children ever be beloved and cherished by the King; I am happy, and I desire to be so.
French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution
Author: Katharine BaetjerPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588396614
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
This publication catalogues The Met’s remarkable collection of eighteenth-century French paintings in the context of the powerful institutions that governed the visual arts of the time—the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, the Académie de France à Rome, and the Paris Salon. At the height of their authority during the eighteenth century, these institutions nurtured the talents of artists in all genres. The Met’s collection encompasses stunning examples of work by leading artists of the period, including Antoine Watteau (Mezzetin), Jean Siméon Chardin (The Silver Tureen), François Boucher (The Toilette of Venus), Joseph Siffred Duplessis (Benjamin Franklin), Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Broken Eggs), Hubert Robert (the Bagatelle decorations), Jacques Louis David (The Death of Socrates), the Van Blarenberghes (The Outer Port of Brest), and François Gérard (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord). In the book’s introduction, author Katharine Baetjer provides a history of the Académie, its establishment, principles, and regulations, along with a discussion of the beginnings of public art discourse in France, taking us through the reforms unleashed by the Revolution. The consequent democratizing of the Salon, brought about by radicals under the leadership of Jacques Louis David, encouraged the formation of new publics with new tastes in subject matter and genres. The catalogue features 126 paintings by 50 artists. Each section includes a short biography of the artist and in-depth discussions of individual paintings incorporating the most up-to-date scholarship.
Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan
Author: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart marquise de MontespanPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Library Catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete
Author: MontespanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368329146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.