The Empire style developed under Emperor Napoleon I (1769-1821), who reigned from 1804 to 1815. The first beginnings of the Emperor's style can be found ... Read more

The peaceful and prosperous reign of Louis XV (1715-1774) saw a prodigious development of the arts, letters and sciences. The construction of new palaces, the blossoming of ... Read more

The term "Directory" refers to a historical period following the French Revolution (1789) and the National Convention (1792-1795), but also a … Read more

After Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo on June 18, 1815, power was regained in France by the two brothers of Louis XVI: the Count of Provence, who reigned … Read more

The term Transition refers to the stylistic evolution which, in the second half of the reign of Louis XV and at the very beginning of the reign of Louis XVI, is characterized by... Read more

After the period of research into the Transition style (1765-1775), the Louis XVI style asserted itself at the beginning of the 1770s, as the elegant expression... Read more

Begun at the end of the Restoration (1830), the reign of Louis-Philippe continued until the Revolution of 1848 when the Parisian revolts… Read more

From 1820 to 1890, French silversmithing was marked by eclecticism and a taste for a wide variety of styles. From neoclassical rigor ... Read more

  Bronze edition: a social phenomenon Small sculpture or bronze edition is a surprising phenomenon... Learn more

In the 1830s, while Parisian decorators and porcelain makers were providing models that perpetuated the neoclassical vocabulary, Jacob Petit (1796-1868) … Read more