Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: The song La valeur d’un baiser [the value of a kiss] and its accompanying print, recall the popular theme of courtly games of love. The print illustrates the moment prior to the lascivious desertion of courtly etiquette. A younger courtier is shown advancing upon a […]
balustrades
S.3.01 Anaximandre
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv / Masquelier Sc” Artist: Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François Engraver: Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I Year: Inscription: “Il fut initié par elles / Dans leurs misteres enchanteurs.” Keywords: aegricanes, altars (religious fixtures), Anaximander (Greek philosopher), arrows, axes (tools), balustrades, cassolettes, censer stands, […]
S.2.17 Le premier soupir de l’amour
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Bouteux inv. / D. Née Sculp” Artist: Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy Engraver: Née, François Denis Year: Inscription: “Il vole avec empreßement, / Lui jurer / Un amour qui ne peut changer;” Keywords: arcades (structural assemblies), arches, balustrades, benches (furniture), breast, Civilization, Classical, […]
S.1.06 La fête du Seigneur
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “JM moreu Le Jne Inve Scul. 1772” Artist: “Moreau, Jean Michel” Engraver: “Moreau, Jean Michel” Year: 1772 Inscription: “Puissions nous longtems encore / Jouir de notre bonheur!” Keywords: aerophones, arbours, arrows, balustrades, batons, bows (weapons), châteaux, children (people by age group), contests, dancing […]
S.1.04 La dormeuse
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: A young courtier, fashionably dressed in a powdered wig, justaucorps (the long knee-length coat), embellished waistcoat, a sword, culottes, with a tricorn hat removed from his head and tucked under his arm – a gallant gesture to acknowledge the young woman who has fallen asleep […]
