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XIXe siècle

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  • Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot (1763-1850), Tureen, Paris, 1819-1823
    21 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Bronze, silver-plated by Christofle in 1907-1908 Long-term loan from the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, 1907 Inv. FNAC PFH 4538 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Jean-Baptiste Claude Odiot, who created this piece from a design by Adrien Louis Marie Cavelier, was one of the most important silversmiths of the Empire. His reputation was based on the technique he used to attach the decorative motifs: each (...)

  • Royal Sèvres Manufactory, Egg-and-snake teapot, 1833
    25 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome and gold decoration 19 x 18 x 10 cm Gift of Jules Audéoud, 1885 Inv. 2644 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library A taste for exotic drinks emerged in the eighteenth century. Artists used tea, coffee and hot chocolate pots to develop a repertory of images inspired by a natural world that was still unfamiliar to Europeans. Spouts and handles often took the form of real or imaginary animals. The service to (...)

  • Bercy Manufactory (?), Pair of Medici vases, Paris, 1815-1830
    25 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Two-tone blown opal crystal, chased and gilt bronze Gift of Edmée Indig-Guérin in memory of Claude Vignat, 2000 Inv. 2000.75.6-7 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Methods of opalizing glass were already known in sixteenth-century Venice, but their application to crystal (lead glass, developed in England in the seventeenth century) was invented in France in the nineteenth century. These two classical-inspired vases are made of opal (...)

  • Édouard Lièvre (1828-1886), State bed of Valtesse de la Bigne, Paris, c. 1875
    26 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Carcase of wood, gilt bronze, green silk velvet Bequest of Émilie Louise de la Bigne, known as Valtesse de la Bigne, 1911 The bed linen and hangings were made with the support of Madame D. Porthault and the Prelle factory Inv. 18176 © Les Arts Décoratifs If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This bed was made for Valtesse de la Bigne, one of the most fashionable courtesans of late nineteenth-century Paris. Known as the “lioness,” she was attractve and (...)

  • Émile Reiber (1826-1893), designer, Grohé Frères, cabinetmakers, Christofle Company, manufacturer, Corner cupboard, Paris, 1874-1878
    26 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Eugène Capy (1829-1894), modeler Mallet, modeler Guignard, patina maker Antoine Tard, enameler Carcase and base in ebony, rosewood, blackened pearwood, door in gilded and patinated galvanic bronze, copper, silver, gold and cloisonné enamel Gift of André and Tony-Henri Bouilhet in memory of Henri Bouilhet, 1930 Inv. 27662 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library After the World’s Fair of 1867, the Christofle silver (...)

  • Manufacture royale de Sèvres, Théière à l’œuf et au serpent, 1833
    9 juin 2008, par FABIEN

    Porcelaine dure, décor polychrome et or H. 19 ; L. 18 ; l. 10 cm Don Jules Audéoud, 1885 Inv. 2644 © Les Arts Décoratifs Si vous souhaitez utiliser ce visuel, veuillez contacter la photothèque Au XVIIIe siècle se développe le goût pour les boissons exotiques. Les théières, cafetières ou chocolatières sont l’occasion pour les artistes de développer un répertoire iconographique s’inspirant d’une nature encore peu familière pour les Européens. Les becs verseurs et les anses prennent alors la forme d’animaux (...)

  • Henri-Auguste Fourdinois (1830–1907), Two-tiered cabinet, France, 1867
    26 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Nivillier (drawings of the ornamentation) Party (modeling of the cabinet) Hugues Protat, Primo and Maigret (sculptures) Carved walnut, inlays of blood jasper and lapis-lazuli, interior inlaid with ivory and silver Bequest of Marguerite Antoinette Fourdinois, 1922 Inv. 29921 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library This cabinet is one of the masterpieces made by the cabinetmaker Henri-Auguste Fourdinois. It was (...)

  • Félix Henri Bracquemond (1833-1914), engraver, François-Eugène Rousseau (1827-1891), manufacturer, Lebeuf Milliet & Co., Dish with a pheasant, Creil Montereau, 1866
    26 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Faience Gift of François-Eugène Rousseau, before 1874 Inv. UC 1041 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library The designer, painter and engraver Félix Bracquemond was one of the first French artists to collect, study and disseminate Japanese prints, which also inspired the Impressionist painters. These prints were the inspiration behind the “Rousseau service,” named after the earthenware dealer who commissioned it from (...)

  • Gabriel Viardot (1830-1906) (attr. to), Wall mirror, Paris, c. 1880
    26 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Carved sycamore wood, mirror glass Acquired with the support of Michel and Hélène David-Weill, 2002 Inv. 2002.57.1 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Gabriel Viardot began his career as a cabinetmaker in 1849. He soon made a name for himself by producing pieces freely inspired by oriental furniture, which he adapted to European taste. In his case, “Asianism” might be a more appropriate term than “Japanism,” as he (...)

  • Sébastien-Charles Giraud (1819-1892), Painting {Princess Mathilde’s Conservatory in the Mansion on Rue de Courcelles}, Paris, 1864
    25 July 2017, by FABIEN

    Oil on wood Purchase, 1950 Inv. 36323 © Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance If you would like to use this image, please contact the Picture Library Princess Mathilde, cousin of Napoleon III, was a key figure in the society life of the Second Empire. After an unhappy marriage to the wealthy Prince Demidoff, she settled in Paris where she lived lavishly, entertaining all the intellectuals, politicians and artists of the day in the drawing rooms of her luxurious mansion on Rue de (...)