2-751-352 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mural decoration in the Palace of Fontainebleau, France, (1928). 'About 1750...Mural decoration in the "Salle du Conseil" [Council Chamber], Fontainebleau Castle...Painted by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) and his assistants in the reign of Louis XV. Boucher's ceiling-paintings in the Salle du Conseil are dated 1753..."Spring" and "Summer" on the doors were painted "en camaieu" by Pierre, the flowers by Peyrotte, the ornament by Christophe Huet'. After E. Ewald. Plate XCVIII, fig 191, 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]