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Peyre.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"4 feet 8 inches","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"9 inches","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Given to the Museumin 1896  by M.Peyre.\n\nThis panel is a fragment of panelling (<u>boiseries)</u>  carved by the French carver Honoré Guibert (Avignon 1724- Paris 1791) under the supervision of the architect Gabriel for the salon of Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV at Fontainebleau. Other panels in the Museum's collections (966-969-1900) are fragments from the same scheme. The salon was commissioned by Louis XV in 1771, installed in 1772 and demolished by Louis XVI in 1774 and its  fragments dispersed. Other fragments are held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.\n(information supplied by Francois Gilles to Leela Meinertas January 2022)\n\nHonoré Guibert, was often employed by A.-J. Gabriel. He executed work at the Petit Trianon, Château de Bellevue, Opêra de Versailles Château de Menars etc etc.\n\nWhen the other panels were bequeathed to the Museum in 1900 they were described as coming from Rambouillet. Vaughan had recorded on the back of 968-1900 the finish and colour scheme of the panels as he acquired them, quite probably their original finish because of the fine gesso work recorded. The other panels were presumably stripped under his orders but we do not know when this panel was stripped The carving of the other panels (and presumably of this one) was in violet against a white ground.  He also recorded that the architect George Basevi (1794-1845) had borrowed the carvings as inspiration when he was doing the mural decorations in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the late 1830s.\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Narrow oak panel (or pilaster) carved in relief with intertwining stems of lilies","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gilles, François, 'Orner les croisées au XVIIIe siècle, l'exemple des \"guichets\" du salon de Madame du Barry à Fontainebleau' <u>Monumenta</u> I, 2020, Vol. I, pp. 48-51."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["73-1896"],"accessionNumberNum":"73","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1896,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}