51. Bruun Neergaard, Sur la situation des beaux-arts en France, ou lettres d'un danois à son ami (Paris, 1801); Quoted in Ballot, 1914, p. 150. The French text reads: "Madame Laville-Leroux nous a donné le Portrait d'une négresse. Il est facile de voir, à la pureté du d...
Another series of these floral emblems is displayed in a corresponding position on the back of the screen. There are two of these screens, of similar character, which are magnificent examples of Chinese decorative art of the 18 entury. Both are of lacquered wood, in twelve folds largely ...