Desk of Louis XV, the Louvre, Paris Barton Two women arguring over reputation

Two women arguring over reputation as men look on

How Sir Percival was taught chivalry

The passenger is smoking a pipe

Watercolour with pen and ink details on paper

a Russian immigrant

Desk of Louis XV, the Louvre, Paris Barton Two women arguring over reputationDesk of Louis XV, the Louvre, Paris, 1911 1912. Bureau du Roi Louis XV, cylinder desk in French transitional Louis XV XVI style. Designed by Jean Francois Oeben, the master cabinet maker of the French royal arsenal and completed in 1769 by his successor, Jean Henri Riesener, in 1769. A print from The Book of Decorative Furniture its Form, Colour and History, Volume II by Edwin Foley, TC and EC Jack Ltd, London, 1911 1912.