Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain
Jean Berain|Daniel Marot the Elder|Jules Hardouin Mansart|Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin|Pierre Giffart|Juan Dolivar|M. Daigremont|Jean Le Pautre|Jean Mariette|François Le Moyne|Claude Duflos|Joseph Vivien|François Chauveau|Jacques III Thuret
1711 or after · Engraving · Drawings and Prints
These designs by the architect and designer Jean Berain show the delightful, lighthearted, whimsical, and strictly symmetrical decoration known as grotesques. Berain's work was very influential and was adopted for the decoration of Boulle marquetry, tapestries, and other textiles, as well as faience. Berain, who was named chief designer to the French court in 1690, was given lodgings in the Louvre near those of his son-in-law, the clockmaker Jacques Thuret, and the cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle.
- Artist
- Jean Berain|Daniel Marot the Elder|Jules Hardouin Mansart|Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin|Pierre Giffart|Juan Dolivar|M. Daigremont|Jean Le Pautre|Jean Mariette|François Le Moyne|Claude Duflos|Joseph Vivien|François Chauveau|Jacques III Thuret
- Date
- 1711 or after
- Medium
- Engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1915, transferred from the Library
