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Old Picture Frame: This simple fireplace with its plain surround is a blank canvas for a dramatic display. An old picture frame looks gorgeous standing on it -no need for a picture inside, the frame is beautiful enough on its own. An unusual carving, perhaps once part of a larger piece of furniture, is stunning and echoes the curves of the cupboard and frame. Logs piled high add a rustic note and some welcome woody colour.A tripod is advisable because it makes it possible for you to focus and frame the picture accurately. Thereafter you need only to check the ground glass occasionally to make sure the child has not swayed out of the picture frame. Your full attention can be kept directly on the subject. You can judge those all-important subtle expressions much more quickly and accurately when looking directly at the child's face than when viewing it on the groundglass.
Under Louis XV, pastoral, amorous, and garden scenes, executed from the paintings and designs of Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and other popular court painters, were much in demand. Many tapestries were woven in small panels for use as chair- and sofa-back upholstery coverings. Vignette patterns, in which a small scene or portrait was surrounded with a large patterned frame, were also introduced at this time. The frame became more important than the picture that it enclosed. Ornamental patterns of this, and the subsequent, period followed the general character of painted and carved motifs. |
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