French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence, Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection hawke ISBN 978-0-89236-857-0

ISBN 978-0-89236-857-0

illustrated both as they appear today and with overlays indicating how they probably looked in ancient times

A chapter on contemporary domestic worship further enhances the relevance of these miniature sculptures for modern viewers

and John McCracken — whose working methods

French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes: Baroque and Régence, Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection hawke ISBN 978-0-89236-857-0Gillian Wilson, Charissa Bremer David, and Jeffrey Weaver With Brian Considine and the staffs of the Department of Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation and the Getty Conservation Institute The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than four hundred objects, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This gorgeously illustrated volume brings together forty four objects