{"product_id":"allegorical-monument-to-louis-xv-pl-26-delafosse","title":"Monument to Louis XV, Pl. 26 — Nouvelle Iconologie Historique","description":"\u003cp\u003eA grandiose allegorical monument to Louis XV, encrusted with martial trophies, royal emblems, and personifications of his reign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlate 26. Designed and engraved by Jean-Charles Delafosse. From \u003cem\u003eNouvelle Iconologie Historique ou Attributs Hieroglyphiques\u003c\/em\u003e. Published in Paris by Jean-François Daumont, c. 1770.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelafosse's monument plates supplied templates for festival architecture, funerary catafalques, and commemorative sculpture. This homage to the \u003cem\u003eBien-Aimé\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to a wave of late-reign panegyrics that translated absolutist propaganda into the disciplined classical vocabulary of the \u003cem\u003egoût grec\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured copperplate engraving. Sheet approximately 47.2 × 33.9 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783235371294,"sku":null,"price":380.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Monument_-_021_thumb_d8a136cf-c585-429a-a4c4-d98de9f5babe.jpg?v=1777201860","url":"https:\/\/phoenixnest.com.au\/products\/allegorical-monument-to-louis-xv-pl-26-delafosse","provider":"Phoenix Nest","version":"1.0","type":"link"}