Identifier: catalogueoffurni00wall (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wallace Collection (London, England)
Subjects: Art Art objects
Publisher: London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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. End of XVIII Century. 366. Madame Vig-ee lie Brun, the celebrated portrait-painter. (B. 1755. D. 1842.) After the portrait of which one version is No. 1653 in theNational Gallery.Enamel on copper.Signed : Thourouf.French School. XIX Century. 367. Study of a Girl in an undress. Signed : E.Gabef. French School. Middle of XIX Century. 368. Painting* on Ivory. Perdita (Mrs. Robinson). After Sir Joshua Reynolds. The original painting by Reynolds has passed into a private collec-tion at Frankfort. British School. End of XVIII or beginning of XIX Century. 369. Portrait of a Xiady. Signed : H. Collen, 1825. English School. First Half of XIX Century. 370. The Morning- Conversation. (This miniature is hung in the Board Room.)Gouache painting probably by the Swedish miniaturist and draughts-man Lanfransen, acclimatized, and affiliated to the French School, asLavreince. (B. 1737. D. 1807.) The companion miniature is No. 350. Swedish (modified by French) School. Second Half of XVIIICentury. r3 o
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GJJAND STAIRCASE AND VESTIBULE. 167GRAND STAIRCASE AND VESTIBULE. 1. Balustrade, (Rampe), of forged iron and gilt bronze, originally in the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris, butremoved and disposed of when a partial reconstructionof that building, then the Bibliotheque Imperiale, wasundertaken under the Emperor Napoleon III. The interlaced Ls repeated throughout the design indicate that theBalustrade was made for Louis Quatorze, King, of France.French. Style and Period of Louis Quatorze.(See Plate No. 30.) 2. Marble Bust of the late Lady Wallace. By Charles Lebourg. The commemorative tablet, placed above this bust, bears thefollowing inscription: The Wallace Collection, Bequeathed tothe British Nation by Amelie, widow of Sir Richard Wallace, Bart.,K.C.B., 1897. (See Plate No. 1.) 3. Marble Bust of Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., K.C.B. (B. 1818. D. 1890.) By E. Hannaux. Posthumous bust executed in 1899. 4. Marble Bust of Richard, Fourth Marquis of Hertford, K.G. By Charles Lebourg. 5. Whit

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