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Date 1638 - 1715
Related Artists Nicolas Poussin • Charles Le Brun • Charles Cressent • François Girardon • Pierre Puget • André-Charles Boulle • André Le Nôtre • Antoine Coysevox • Gerrit Jensen

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Louis XIV style
Figure 68: One of a pair of Baroque cabinets inlaid with pietra dura made for Louis XIV by the Italian furniture maker and sculptor, Domenico Cucci, at the Gobelins factory, France, 1681--83.
French dress of the Louis XIV period: male attire of long coat with wide, turned-back sleeves, waistcoat, lace cravat, tight-fitting breeches, and periwig. Louis XIV and His Family, oil painting by Nicolas de Largillière, 1711; in the Wallace Collection, London.
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