Variations sur la galerie des Glaces pour le château de Choisy ?

Thirty very finished drawings and watercolours by Charles de La Fosse held in Würzburg form the puzzle of a mysterious ceiling decoration. Four sheets by Michel Corneille the Younger are the key: a copy from La Fosse in a private collection, two sections at the British Museum and the Courtauld Institute, and a complete project at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. These suggest that in the second half of the 1680s the two artists successively responded to the same commission for a gallery and make the restitution of the structure and arrangement possible, as well as the identification of its scene... Mehr ...