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18th century lifestyle, Antique bed, Antique boiserie, Antique Fabric, Antiques, Bed drapery, Dangerous Liasons, Duchesse de Mouchy, Jacques Garcia, Le Cabinet des Fables, Madame Dange, Marie Antoinette, Petit Trianon
“During the reign of Louis XVI, the Duchesse de Mouchy,
lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, occupied this bed …”
If you look through the bed drapery you’ll see the
reflection of the bust of Duchesse de Mochy at the window…
The Bed
Alecia Beldegreen
From another perspective…
Luminous green silk taffeta drapes and a wistful aristocratic gaze
In Jacques Garcia’s house in Paris…
Fabrics
Caroline Lebeau
Madame Dange
“One striking discovery concerns the Cabinet of Fables, the boudoir of Madame Dange’s house on the Place Vendome, painted in the 1750s with illustrations from La Fontaine’s fables. When the house became the residence of Paris’s military governor in the 19th century the boudoir was gilded and repainted in an ostentatious style. Research and radiographic examination revealed the original. The idea of stripping away all the 19th-century additions, an aesthetically desirable course, was considered. But the additions revealed much about how one era can alter the work of an earlier. The museum decided to compromise. One side of the cabinet has been restored to something like the original, the other retains its 19th-century gilding.”
Click Le Cabinet des Fables
to watch a short film on the restoration…
Boiserie detail at Petit Trianon…
“The cabinets paneled walls, in the pale Wedgewood blue favored by Marie Antoinette, are decorated with stucco. The brothers Rousseau completed this work in 1887.”
World of Interiors Oct. ’06
French boiserie panel
18th century
Dangerous Liaisons
Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century
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