Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “LeBarbier / D Née Sc” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Née, François Denis” Year: Inscription: “Elle m’a dit a l’instant même / Lindor, je me mocquois de toi.” Keywords: bagwigs books cabriole chairs chairs (furniture forms) couples court dress courtship day (time […]
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S.3.07 Le recuëillement
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / Masquelier Sculp” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Recueillés vous quelque momens / Mon ame infortunée;” Keywords: court dress,interior, night, upper class, urban, candlelight, candles, candleholders,miniature painting, quill pens,inkwells, books, desks,letters (correspondence), fauteuils […]
S.2.22 Le concert
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Le concert is set within a rich, but intimate space. It’s an intimate soirée, an evening entertainment with elaborately draped and trimmed curtains pulled shut, and the piano forté illuminated by candlelight. The two gentlemen who are apparently listening to the concert, one seated warming his […]
S.2.07 Le clavecin
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: The young lovers throw their arms back in surprise at being discovered as the young girl’s mother enters the room – their arms form an incomplete circle to emphasise their recent proximity. On the stool in the lower right foreground, a lap dog (symbol of […]
