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View this post on Instagram How to frame a Boucher! "The Interrupted Sleep" 1750, oil on canvas A post shared...

A photo posted by Lauren (@mariegossip) on May 29, 2016 at 9:26am PDT Boucher's The Interrupted Sleep caught my eye while...

Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, Boy with a Drawing Book. c. 1772 oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum. Somehow I made it through college dragging alo...

I am very excited to share my review of The Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden , which I recently featu...

Nattier, Jean-Marc,  Madame de Caumartin as Hebe . Painting, 1753.National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. 18th century women ...

  A description of Louis XV from 1747

Giovannia Battista Piranesi, Side Table . Gilt oak, lime wood, marble, 1768. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. As times changed at t...

Jacques-Ange Gabriel, Chateau Fontainebleau . France, 1754. Hartill Art Associates Inc. Ange-Jacques Gabriel made quite the name for h...

Where did Marie Antoinette get her innovative fashion sense and style from? Could a little have been from her mother, Empress Maria Theresa?...

Jean-Siméon Chardin,  Monkey as Painter. 1740. Musée du Louvre Hurrah! Tis Friday! Before you all take off for your fabulous weeke...

Potpourri "vessel", c.1760. Porcelain. Musée du Louvre. This porcelain vessel is intended to hold fragrant potpourri.  It is deco...

Spring of 1746 found Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson pregnant, and her lover, Louis XV on his way out of town for a  campaign.  For a relaxing an...

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