1. Arts et Beaux livres

EAN13
9791096561384
Éditeur
Monelle Hayot
Date de publication
3 mars 2023
Nombre de pages
208
Dimensions
27,9 x 21,3 x 2 cm
Poids
1076 g
Langue
fre

The Turkish Boudoir Of Marie Antoinette And Joséphine At Fontainebleau

Vincent Cochet, Alexia Lebeurre

Monelle Hayot

Prix public : 45,00 €

Ten years apart, Marie Antoinette gives to Fontainebleau two jewels made by the greatest artists of her time: the Turkish boudoir (1777) and the silver boudoir (1786). In these homes of retirement, the queen escapes the label of the Court and combines a fancy Orient with the expression of the most extravagant novelties. The craze for turqueries did not fade in the early nineteenth century and the Empress Joséphine moved a few years later in this women’s shelter offering a new sparkle to this universe of the Thousand and One Nights. She had a sumptuous and atypical furniture, which combines mahogany and gilded bronzes with lamé fabrics, embroidered and fringed with gold. After a painstaking restoration, the graceful carved, painted and gilded paneling of Marie Antoinette’s boudoir is once again the setting for Joséphine’s luxurious furniture. Nestled in a corner of the ancestral castle of Fontainebleau, the Turkish boudoir is the only decoration of its kind preserved in France and one of the most exceptional sets of furniture created for Joséphine.
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