Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “St. Quentin in. / D Née Sc” Artist: “Saint-Quentin, Jacques Philippe Joseph de” Engraver: “Née, François Denis” Year: Inscription: “Dans le sein du Sommeil une douce vapeur / Vous a peinte à mes yeux sensible à mon ardeur.” Keywords: acanthus (motif) armchairs bed […]
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S.3.19 Regrets de Petrarque
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: “Quelqufois pénétrant au fond de son tombeau, / J’ose encore la chercher dans ses crêpes funebres;” Keywords: guéridons, interior, torches (lighting devices), ruffs, Corinthian order, […]
S.3.13 Priere a morphée
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / Née Sc” Artist: Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François Engraver: Née, François Denis Year: Inscription: “Ô toi, Morphée, ô toi, qu’environnent les songes.” Keywords: bed hangings, Chiroptera (order), chitons, cushions, incense, Morpheus (Greco-Roman deity), Mythology, Classical, night, putti (children), sandals, sleeping, […]
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.3.25 Le melancolique
Look: View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare Image Metadata: Image Description: Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / L. J. Masquelier Sculp.” Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François” Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I” Year: Inscription: “Lugubre nuit, par vos ténébres, / Venés chaßer l’éclat du jour.” Keywords: night, exterior,Moon, upper class, urban, sky, clouds, Chiroptera (order), Populus (genus), […]
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 […]
