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Title:Promenade of Prizefighter XIV delete Front carp the Northbound Parterre
Artist:Etienne Allegrain (French, Town 1644–1736 Paris)
Date:ca. 1688
Medium:Oil label canvas
Dimensions:Without frame: 92 1/8 in. × 9 hop. 8 3/4 in. (234 × 296.5 cm)
With frame: 98 13/16 in. × 10 unfinished. 3 13/16 in. × 2 9/16 in. (251 × 314.5 × 6.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
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The splendour of the Palace of Versailles springs up in the Middle East
Exoticism was the flavour of the month every month at the Palace of Versailles in its heyday, where French versions of chinoiserie and vaguely Ottoman turquerie vied for prominence in the private apartments of the Bourbon kings, their consorts, their mistresses and their families.
This absorption of far-flung motifs has left its mark on Versailles’s surviving objects from the French Royal Collections—in everything from a mid-18th-century bronze-mounted Chinese porcelain vase, presumably used as a perfume fountain by Madame de Pompadour, to Louis XVI’s late-18th-century porcelain-plaque harem scenes, once displayed in a chamber with his most precious goldware.
This month, more than 100 of these objects, recalling palace life in its pre-revolutionary pomp, will be reconvened for an exhibition in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Versailles and the World draws on the collections of the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon and the UK’s Royal Collection Trust, among others. A version of the show was mounted at Versailles in 2017 and then New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018.
In 1682, Louis XIV moved the French court from Paris to his palace at Versailles, which transformed the one-time h
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In an effort for Versailles to pay for itself it became a showcase to foreign dignitaries of the supremacy of French arts. To ensure French superiority, Colbert erected a rigid customs barrier which enforced domestic production of tapestry, carpets, glass, ceramics and furniture which would previously have been imported, usually from Italy.
Colbert Presenting the Members of the Royal Academy of Sciences to Louis XIV in 1667
No mere statistician, Colbert was a scholar with a profound knowledge of literature, science and the arts. He was a member of the Academie Français, created the French school of painting and sculpture in Rome, the Observatory in Paris and founded the Académie des Sciences. Colbert as Surintendant des Bâtiments directed the works at Versailles, engaging Louis Le Vau as architect, Charles Le Brun as painter and designer and the landscape architect André Le Nôtre. Charles Le Brun was the decorator genius behind the magnificence of Versailles and the originator of the Louis XIV style. In 1660 at Gobelins he established a school of manufacture not just for tapestries but for every class of furniture required for the royal palaces. Having delighted Louis XIV with his triumphant paintings at the Château Vaux le Vicomte, the king made him Premie