Robert de Cotte, Pierre-Imbert Drevet, No later than 1739, Graphic Art, Copper Engraving, Robert de Cotte (1656-1735) was one of the principal figures at the time when strict baroque was transformed into the lighter rococo in France. There can be no doubt that the man portrayed is an architect – he has an architectural drawing and a ruler lying on his table. In addition, Cotte is wearing the French Order of Saint Michael, which betokens both a high rank and outstanding loyalty to the King. He became the director of the, Manufacture des Gobelines, in 1699, where both the tapestries and royal furniture were produced. However, after being appointed, Premier architecte du Roi, in 1708, de Cotte was more concerned with the decorations for the Royal Chapel and then also the Palace at Versailles. And in Cotte’s 1729 design for the Queen’s bedroom in Versailles, we find numerous C- and S-shaped details in the decorations. These so-called, rocailles, became the most frequently used ornament of the rococo period; the word rococo is of course itself derived from, rocaille, . Altogether, Cotte left an extensive production in architecture as well as in decorations. No fewer than eight volumes of his original drawings of room arrangements, furniture, tapestries and jewellery are to be found in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris., Paper, Color, Printer's ink, Copper engraving, Printet, Height (paper size) 375 mm, Width (paper size) 290 mm, Graphic Design, European
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