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Model of a Louis XVI style boudoir, c. 1780, mixed-media model by the workshop of Mrs. James Ward Thorne, c. 1930–40; in the Art Institute of Chicago. Figure 29: Symmetrical, restrained motifs based on the antique designs characteristic of the early Neoclassical Louis XVI style: boudoir of Madame de Serilly, Hotel de Soubise, Paris, c. 1732. French love seat
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Louis XVI style

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Louis XVI style, visual arts produced in France during the reign (1774–93) of Louis XVI, which was actually both a last phase of Rococo and a first phase of Neoclassicism. The predominant style in architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts was Neoclassicism, a style that had come into its own during the last years of Louis XV’s life, chiefly as a reaction to the excesses of the Rococo but partly through the popularity of...

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