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Album of watercolor renderings of furniture designs

1860Best.-Nr. 17012Paris: Not published. ca 1860. Original three-quarter leather over cloth. Very good; joints chafed. Oblong folio album sheet size 385 x 265 mm with 138 watercolor renderings heightened in gum arabic and retaining a bright fresh finish of tables consoles bed side tables chairs writing desks work tables cabinets buffets clocks etc. There are an additional pair of renderings from a smaller album that are inserted; these retain what appear to be autograph stock number and measurement notations. The drawings measure appx. 150 x 190 mm.; some are smaller and two to a page. Most are drawn directly on the album page thick glazed sheets of paper; a few are drawn on paper and mounted to the album sheets. An exquisitely rendered and engaging album of color furniture designs in the style of Louis XIV; most likely a trade catalog. Each design is fully appointed in great detail and with appropriate colors. A Archambaut who has signed one of the renderings is designated a furniture designer in the V&A catalog under the six drawings it holds in its collection. The explanation for the ornate high style design of the contents of this catalog is given in the last chapter of Madeline Jarry and Pierre Devinoy's book Le Siège Francais 1973. There they deftly develop the argument of why there was a renascence in the Imperial style at the time. This domestic demand was augmented by the managed and manipulated international market for French "antiques" see Diana Davis The Tastemakers. British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior 1785-1865 esp. chapter one. A most uncommon survival. The foundation and evolution of this kind of trade in France from design and 'jobbing' in the eighteenth and into the nineteenth century is described in Carolyn Sargentson's book Merchants and Luxury Markets .; Auslander Taste and Power - Furnishing Modern France - an important and informative study of the evolution and meaning of furniture style and taste two sides of the same coin for the author in French society. Not published. hardcover books

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