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Flemish masters excelled in this genre during the Golden Age.\r\n\r\nIn the early 18th century, bouquets and flower baskets gradually lost their symbolic dimension in favor of their decorative appeal. Nevertheless, the language of flowers remained a common visual code in paintings. Interest in arranged natural landscapes\u2014such as the jardins \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise of Versailles\u2014 paralleled with advances in botany. Greenhouses and orangeries allowed exotic and European flowers to bloom year-round, which were then gathered into bouquets, that brought the garden indoors.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nAt the same time, the decorative arts became embraced artificial flowers, molded and painted from life. 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Flemish masters excelled in this genre during the Golden Age.\r\n\r\nIn the early 18th century, bouquets and flower baskets gradually lost their symbolic dimension in favor of their decorative appeal. Nevertheless, the language of flowers remained a common visual code in paintings. Interest in arranged natural landscapes\u2014such as the jardins \u00e0 la fran\u00e7aise of Versailles\u2014 paralleled with advances in botany. Greenhouses and orangeries allowed exotic and European flowers to bloom year-round, which were then gathered into bouquets, that brought the garden indoors.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 7\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nAt the same time, the decorative arts became embraced artificial flowers, molded and painted from life. These floral designs appeared across a wide range of medium: marquetry, tableware, porcelain sculptures (e.g., Jean-Claude Duplessis and Claude Le Boitteux, Bouquet de la Dauphine, 1748, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, inv. PE 707), miniature paintings made from rare and diverse materials (mosaic, mother-of-pearl, shells), and tapestry. They also adorned precious small objects such as watches, snuffboxes, and fix\u00e9 sous verre paintings like the verre \u00e9glomis\u00e9 pieces.\r\n\r\nIn the second half of the 18th century, Victor Vispr\u00e9, a member of The Hague painters' guild, gained recognition for his still life paintings under glass. His works, purely decorative, were in highly sought after Paris. S\u00e9bastien Le Clerc, painter to the King, owned two; the Marquise de Pompadour had one; and Augustin Blondel de Gagny owned two as well.\r\n\r\nThese verre \u00e9glomis\u00e9 plates are particularly remarkable for their compositions, which recall 17th-century Northern still lifes arranged in niches, as well as for their shimmering colors.\r\n\r\nLike real little paintings, these two verre eglomis\u00e9 plates depict rich interior scenes. In a play of symmetry, a finely decorated apartment is described : sumptuous damasks trimmed with passementeries frame the scene, reminiscent of the most refined interiors of the time. Arranged on richly carved console tables, reflecting the contemporary productions of the greatest joiners, these bouquets take place in interiors typical of the Age of Enlightenment.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","field":{"ID":617,"key":"field_67e67ebc1f746","label":"Histoire de l'objet","name":"histoire_de_lobjet","aria-label":"","prefix":"acf","type":"wysiwyg","value":null,"menu_order":6,"instructions":"","required":0,"id":"","class":"","conditional_logic":0,"parent":614,"wrapper":{"width":"","class":"","id":""},"default_value":"","allow_in_bindings":0,"tabs":"all","toolbar":"full","media_upload":1,"delay":0,"wpml_cf_preferences":2,"_name":"histoire_de_lobjet","_valid":1}},"bibliographie":{"simple_value_formatted":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 12\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Bibliography<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>F. Sydney Eden, \u201cVerre \u00e9glomis\u00e9\u201d, The Connoisseur, no. 32, June 1932.<\/li>\n<li>Rudy Eswarin, \u201cTerminology of verre \u00e9glomis\u00e9\u201d, Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 21, 1975.<\/li>\n<li>Jeannine Geyssant, \u201cGlass, Brilliance and Light: The Fascination and Charm of Reverse Glass Paintings.\u201d S\u00e8vres: Journal of the Society of Friends of the National Museum of Ceramics, no. 18, 2009, 50\u201356.<\/li>\n<li>Jeannine Geyssant, Berno Heymer, \u201cThe Enigma of the Vispr\u00e9 Brothers: Reverse Glass Painters in the 18th Century.\u201d L\u2019Estampille \u2013 L\u2019Objet d\u2019Art, no. 442, January 2009, 46\u201353.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Guth, \u201cToute la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 sur le verre \u00e9glomis\u00e9\u201d, Connaissance des Arts, no. 66, August 1957, p. 28.<\/li>\n<li>W.B Honey, \u201cGold engraving under glass\u201d, The Connoisseur, no. 92, December 1933.<\/li>\n<li>Julia Weber, David Babin, \u201cLa porcelaine au service de la diplomatie. Les \u00e9changes de pr\u00e9sents entre Dresde et Versailles\u201d, in S\u00e8vres. Revue de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Amis du mus\u00e9e national de C\u00e9ramique, no. 16, 2007, pp. 51-56.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","value_formatted":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 12\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3>Bibliography<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>F. 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