Le bijou dessiné, designing jewels. Rome and a talented colorist

and a talented colorist

Painters needed trees

But today I don't have the impetus to put on my traveler's shoes

Toutes étaient l’oeuvre de l’art des hommes : statues

from which his art borrows many traits

Le bijou dessiné, designing jewels. Rome and a talented coloristJewelry design has long remained hidden from public view. Whether functional or the bearers of unfulfilled dreams, these paper jewels have nevertheless, since the 15th century, been the shadowy side of the models to which they often gave birth. This book presents around a hundred drawings, mainly from the Van Cleef & Arpels Collection on Jewelry Culture, dating from the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. It sheds