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Also Known As Louis Seize
Date 1774 - 1793
Related Artists Jacques-Louis David • Jean-Antoine Houdon • Adam Weisweiler • Jean-Henri Riesener

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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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