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Galeries historiques de Versailles: dédiées à sa majesté la reine des francais: [Personnage célèbres sous le règne de Louis XIV]

Gavard, Charles · 1843 · 150 pictures

A French engraved portrait album from 1843 by Charles Gavard, issued for Queen Marie-Amélie of the French and collecting notable figures of Louis XIV's reign for the Versailles galleries. The four engravings show bewigged men in armour or lace collars, rendered in fine crosshatched line, rotated sideways on the page. A designer could take the cascading curled periwig and lace cravat detailing as a reference for baroque line and tonal engraving.

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