Charissa Bremer-David

French Silver in the J. Paul Getty Museum is vividly illustrated and presents the first comprehensive catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum's celebrated collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver. The collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum is of exceptional quality and state of preservation. Each item is noteworthy for its beauty, inventive form, skillful execution, illustrious provenance,...

Meticulously woven by hand with wool, silk, and gilt-metal thread, the tapestry collection of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, represents the highest achievements of the art form. Intended to enhance the king’s reputation by visualizing his manifest glory and to promote the kingdom’s nascent mercantile economy, the royal collection of tapestries included antique and contemporary sets that followed...