2-750-496 - 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, fig 185, 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]