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Dangerous liaisons : fashion and furniture in the eighteenth century

Call Number

  • 391 K768 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Physical Description

128 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

Notes

Catalog of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Apr. 29-Sept. 6, 2004.

Contents

  • Interior motives: seduction by decoration in eighteenth-century France / Mimi Hellman
  • The portrait: an unexpected entanglement
  • The levée: the assiduous admirer
  • The music lesson: a window of opportunity
  • The withdrawing room: a helpful valet
  • The masked beauty
  • The favorite
  • The broken vase: a consoling merchant
  • The card game: cheating at Cavagnole
  • The late supper: the memento.

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