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À L'ANCIEN RÉGIME IS INSPIRED BY THE ART OF ROCOCO

Jean-Simeon Chardin - A Vase of Flowers, 1750’s at the National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh Scotland 
Vase de fleurs sur une table de pierre avec un nid & un verdier 
colourthysoul: Larry P. Preston - Amaryllis in Chocolate Pot
unfair faces in art history - no.9 john singleton copley / self-portrait, 1780-1784
The 18th century painting of a Triumph of the Duchess of Somerset by Louis Laguerre on the Grand Staircase of Petworth House 
Jeremiah Goodman Dining Room of the Interior Designer Carlos de Beistegui ,  Paris, 1960 Jeremiah Goodman born in 1922 has painted illustrations of interior spaces for nearly every design magazine from the 1950s through the present. His moody gouache paintings “interpreted” the homes of international luminaries and spaces created by global design leaders: Bruce Weber, Edward Albee, Yves Saint Laurent, Mario Buatta, Billy Baldwin, Elsie de Wolfe, Diana Vreeland, the Duchess of Windsor, Rose Cumming, Sir John Gielgud‚ Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton, etc.
stilllifequickheart: Maurice Lobre Red Lacquer Box 1937
necspenecmetu: Jacques-Louis David, The Children of Niobe, 1772
deadsunflower: TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista. Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue (1757-58). Fresco, 1000 x 600 cm. Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca’ Rezzonico, Venice.
speciesbarocus: Jerzy Szymonowicz - Allegory of Spring (c. 1680).
necspenecmetu: Jean-Honore Fragonard, Winter, c. 1755
snowvstorm: View of the Bay of Naples from Posillipo, William Marlow. 1777-9.