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Detailed description :Les Van Blarenberghe

Les Van Blarenberghe

des reporters du XVIIIe siècle

Under the direction of Jean-François  Méjanès

Contributions by Irène Château-Thierry (de), Monique Maillet-Chassagne, Jean-François  Méjanès

€ 29.50 tax included

Through these beautiful miniatures on snuff boxes, as well as larger drawings, readers will discover views and pictures of the 18th century captured by the Van Blarenberghe brothers with all the precision of “geographer-reporters”. Street scenes, fairground parades, comical scenes and bygone castles show what daily life was like in the age of Enlightenment.

Technical details

96 pages, hardcover, 22 x 28 cm, 87 color illustrations.

Publication date

2006

Related event

Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre from January 27 to April 30, 2006.

Period

18th century
ISBN French9789053495971
French only


Co-publisher(s)

Snoeck