Word: fragonard
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...their storybook symbolism, straightforward drawing and economical restriction to blacks, reds and yellows. At Aubusson, Beauvais and the world-famous Gobelin tapestry works in Paris, descendants of the medieval masters still labored. But their models were mostly second-rate Italian engravings and 18th Century boudoir muralists like Boucher and Fragonard. Twentieth Century tapestries used as many as 14,000 different hues of thread, took years to finish. But medieval ones, designed to be "frescoes in wool," used as few as 17 hues and were far simpler to weave...
...Neuschwanstein catalogs listed 21,000 items, including choice canvases by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Fragonard, Boucher, Veronese; boxes of exquisite Renaissance jewelry, fine Tanagra figurines, antique carved ivory clocks, rich tapestries. Because files of orderly records and correspondence were captured intact at Neuschwanstein, the castle's contents may well be the most important cache of looted art yet to come to light in Europe...
Collector Bache's favorite painters were Raphael, Holbein, Goya, Fragonard. But he seldom ventured to buy paintings without the advice of Britain's No. 1 art dealer, Lord Duveen, whose merchandising motto was: "Nothing but recognized masterpieces." The result is a popular quip: "The Bache collection-too, too Duveen !", and a group of paintings unmarred by any of the second-and third-rate art that usually creeps into such galleries...
Lillie did not fail him. Whether bursting into a Fragonard boudoir as Brünnhilde on a white horse, or playing a world-weary actress with only energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...
...John Mortimer had shipped the collection to London, not only hoping for a readier market there but also tempted by Christie's low commission (7½%). Over the block passed Flemish, early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...