Louis XVI
Towards the end of the reign of Louis XV there was a distinct change in taste, and consequently in style. This was manifested by a return to simplicity of line,
No. 126. Painted Interior Decoration. Marie Antoinette Boudoir. Louis XVI.
No. 127. Interior Treatment. Louis XVI.
No. 128. Chimney-piece with Mirror. Louis XVI.
No. 129. Library with fitted Book-cases. Louis XVI.
a more sparing use of enrichments and greater refinement of detail.
No. 130. Door Treatment. Louis XVI.
Probably the same influence that inspired Adam was at work in France, when the license that marked the Rococo gave place to a more severe and restrained expression in the succeeding Louis XVI style, in which the curvilinear and plastic forms became once more structural in feeling and refined in detail.
Associated with this change was Jacques Gondouin, who died at Paris in 1818 at the age of eighty-one, whose most celebrated work is the Ecole de Médécine. He was also entrusted with the erection of the column in the Place Vendôme.