Fire screen (écran) ca. 1786 Georges Jacob French On a visit to the royal palace of Fontainebleau on September 14, 1787, Arthur Young described Marie-Antoinettes then recently redecorated boudoir as a delicious little room with exquisite painting, observing that “nothing can exceed the extremity of ornament that is here with taste bestowed.”[1 Designed by the architect Pierre Rousseau (1751-1829 ), the queens boudoir at Fontainebleau is, indeed, a jewel box of a room. Its large mirrors alternate with shimmering mother-of-pearl-like boiserie painted by Michel-Hubert Bourgeois and his assistant Jacques-Louis-François Touzé with lighthearted arabesques and flowers. An important aspect of the interior decoration was the matching seat furniture supplied by Georges Jacob and clearly intended to harmonize with the gold and silver tones of the decor. This screens gilded frame incorporates silvered highlights, now much worn, such as the wisps of ivy trailing around the uprights shaped like

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Fire screen (écran) ca. 1786 Georges Jacob French On a visit to the royal palace of Fontainebleau on September 14, 1787, Arthur Young described Marie-Antoinettes then recently redecorated boudoir as a delicious little room with exquisite painting, observing that “nothing can exceed the extremity of ornament that is here with taste bestowed.”[1 Designed by the architect Pierre Rousseau (1751-1829 ), the queens boudoir at Fontainebleau is, indeed, a jewel box of a room. Its large mirrors alternate with shimmering mother-of-pearl-like boiserie painted by Michel-Hubert Bourgeois and his assistant Jacques-Louis-François Touzé with lighthearted arabesques and flowers. An important aspect of the interior decoration was the matching seat furniture supplied by Georges Jacob and clearly intended to harmonize with the gold and silver tones of the decor. This screens gilded frame incorporates silvered highlights, now much worn, such as the wisps of ivy trailing around the uprights shaped like

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