The Wallace Collection

I would love to go to this exhibition - but with the deadline of the project and funding i might have to miss it unfortunately and just google the exhibit.

Basically the collection houses one of Europes finest collections of works of art, paintings, furniture, arms & armour and porcelain.
I would like to look at the porcelain used since at Marie Antoinettes Hamlet there we're porcelain milk churns - so im interested in the patterns they would have had

Here is an exquisite piece of porcelain from

• Sèvres, France
• 1758 - 1759

Designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis the Elder, this is perhaps the most important object in Sèvres porcelain in the Wallace Collection. Only two other examples of this design are recorded, but this one has particular prestige because it was given by Louis XV to his favourite daughter, Madame Adélaïde.

I love the swirls, and elegance of such a small piece of porcelain

Other stuff i have looked at is also one of my favourite pieces of art work EVER!

• Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
• The Swing
• France
• 1767

According to the poet Collé, the history painter Doyen was commissioned by an unnamed ‘gentleman of the Court’ to paint his young mistress on a swing, pushed by a bishop with himself admiring her legs from below.
Fragonard, who became well-known for his erotic genre-pictures, proved better suited to paint the work, in which the impudent reference to the church has been omitted, leaving the girl as the main focus, delicious in her froth of pink silk, poised mid-air tantalizingly beyond the reach of both her elderly seated admirer and her excited young lover.

I just love all the connotation behind this paiting and in an extent reminds me of marie antoinette alot - very beautiful and young - and at the same time very naive and playful and susceptible to rumours being layed upon her due to her immature and air-head manner.