Designs for a Picture Frame
1730 · Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
15 x 11 9/16 in. (38.1 x 29.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gilles-Marie Oppenord
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Gilles-Marie Oppenordt was a celebrated French designer at the Bâtiments du Roi, the French royal works, and one of the initiators of the Rocaille and Rococo styles, nicknamed "the French Borromini". He specialized in interior architecture and decoration, though he has been connected with the furniture of Charles Cressent. His surname has also been spelled Oppenord and Oppenort.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago
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