Write to the booksellers1 books for « freund amy »Edit
Noble Beasts. Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art
Freund, Amy: Noble Beasts. Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art. 2026. 248 pages, with 171 illustrations in colour. 28 x 21cms. Study on the fashion for hunting scenes in late 17th and early 18th century France, and its connection to questions of national identity and sovereignty at the beginning of the Enlightenment. Focusing on the work of Francois Desportes, Jean-Baptiste Oudry and other members of the French Royal Academy and the Gobelins manufactury. Chapters cover the hunting of crocodiles at Versailles, portraits of dogs, and types of weapons depicted, such as the Jaley gun, its design and ornament.
Study on the fashion for hunting scenes in late 17th and early 18th century France, and its connection to questions of national identity and sovereignty at the beginning of the Enlightenment. Focusing on the work of Francois Desportes, Jean-Baptiste Oudry and other members of the French Royal Academy and the Gobelins manufactury. Chapters cover the hunting of crocodiles at Versailles, portraits of dogs, and types of weapons depicted, such as the Jaley gun, its design and ornament
