2-750-495 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Decorative painting in the Louvre, Paris, France, (1928). 'About 1665...Decorative painting (Grand trumeau, petits trumeaux) in the Gallery of Apollo [Galerie d'Apollon]'. Detail of decorations in the Louvre Palace - a pier glass or trumeau mirror is a mirror which is placed on a pier, (a wall between two windows supporting an upper structure). Part of the Louvre was rebuilt after a fire in February 1661, and Charles Le Brun was assigned responsibility for decorations. Restoration work was carried out by Félix Duban, 1848-1851. After P. Gelis Didot. Plate XCII, figs 183-184, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]