Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Amédée Couder (1800-1864) is considered as having been the first artist to have opened an office for “drawing for the manufactures” beginning in 1830. One of his letters, addressed to a newspaper director and published in 1857, offers a new perception of the functioning of such an office. This document also provides first rate information on the role played by Couder in the creation of the “decorations” of wallpaper during the decade of the 1830s, and allows us to attribute to him the paternity of the decoration Chasse et Pêche edited by the Lapeyre company, and considered as “the chef d’œuvre of its kind.” Finally, this letter bears first hand witness to the stylistic mutation taking place in the decorative arts after 1830, when the neo-Classic style give way to neo-Renaissance or more generally eclectic explorations.
Source: Revue de l Art
DOI: 10.3917/rda.204.0051
Author: Jean-François Luneau
Language: French
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4367276307