Study of a Ceiling Decoration, the Bedroom of the Apartment of the Queen Mother at Fontainebleau
Eugène Delacroix French
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Delacroix used drawing as a tool to analyze and recall decorative motifs. Here, he made a detailed record of the richly embellished seventeenth-century ceiling in Queen Anne of Austria’s bedroom in the château de Fontainebleau. His descriptive annotations offer nuance such as "the two marbles of the same value; above, more reddish violet and below,nmore green." His notes also suggest that he had in mind his commission to decorate the library at the Palais Bourbon (referencing a pendentive, twenty of which he had to paint for that project). He did eventually incorporate a gold garland against a white background, similar to the design in the drawing, as a border motif in the library.
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