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Roman, Hadrianic period. Triangular base of a candelabrum. A.D. 117-138.   Roman, Antonine period. Shaft of a candelabrum. Mid-2nd century A.D.  

Marble.

The British Museum, London. Currently on long term loan (2007-2018) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Nicola Carletti. Console table. Mid-eighteenth century.

Carved and gilded wood; fleur-de-pêche and Giallo di Siena marble top.

Palazzo Corsini. Roma, Italia.

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François-Thomas Germain. Coffeepot. 1757.

Silver with ebony handle.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY. USA.

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Dear followers,

I apologize for my extended absence. Over the last several months I have been busy with applying to graduate school and working on my undergraduate thesis on domestic architecture and interior decoration in Regency Paris (1715-23). But starting today, I will be back to sharing my favorite works of art and architecture, with a particular emphasis on the decorative arts of eighteenth-century France and Italy. 

On another note, I am delighted to announce that, this Fall, I will begin work on a Master of Arts degree in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.

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Jacques de Lajoüe. Design for an Ornamental Decoration. 1740-60.

Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on paper.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York, NY. USA.

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Pierre-Denis Martin. Vue générale du château et des pavillons de Marly. 1722.

Oil on canvas.

Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Versailles, France.

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Jean-Antoine Watteau. La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat). ca. 1715.

Oil on canvas.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, MA. USA.

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Louis-Michel van Loo (portrait), and Claude-Joseph Vernet (seascape). Portrait of the Marquis of Pombal. 1766.

Oil on canvas.

Câmara Municipal de Oeiras. Lisboa, Portugal. 

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Dear followers,

I apologize for not having been as active on my blog in recent weeks as I would have liked to be. I am pleased to annonce that I will be travelling to Rome in a few days and have created a blog to document my experience. My time in Rome will be academically oriented, and thus my blog will be equally academic in nature. I hope you all will follow it and give me feedback. 

http://labelleitalie.tumblr.com/

I look forward to sharing my journey with you all!

Best,

Mes Beaux-Arts

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Giovanni Paolo Panini. Charles III of Bourbon on visit to Pope Benedict XIV in the Coffee House of the Quirinal. 1746.

Oil on canvas.

Museo nazionale di Capodimonte. Napoli, Italia.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. Vue du château de Montmusard. ca. 1770.

Oil on canvas.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Dijon, France.

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Ange-Jacques Gabriel. L'ermitage de Madame de Pompadour à Fontainebleau. 1749; wings added in 1755. 

Fontainebleau, France.

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Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet. La grande galerie du Louvre, le Pont-Neuf et le collège des Quatre-Nations. 1755.

Oil on canvas.

Musée Carnavalet. Paris, France.

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Hyacinthe Rigaud. Portrait de Robert de Cotte. 1713.

Oil on canvas.

Musée du Louvre. Paris, France.

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Antoine-François Callet. Portrait de Claude-Nicolas Ledoux avec sa fille Adélaïde. ca. 1780. 

Oil on canvas.

Musée Carnavalet. Paris, France.

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Nicolas Poussin. Landscape with the Gathering of the Ashes of Phocion. 1648.

Oil on canvas.

Walker Art Gallery. Liverpool, UK. 

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Gilles-Marie Oppenord. Preliminary design for the Salon d'Angle at the Palais Royale, Paris. 1719-1720.

Pen, ink, and pencil on paper. 

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. New York, NY. USA.