by Anne Doridou-Heim
As Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne’s animals go on display in the Trianon Gardens at Versailles (June 19 to October 10), a proof of Claude’s leaf-collared Lapin-Chou I (Rabbit-Cabbage I) fetched €194,500 at auction. Marie-Antoinette would certainly have liked this most original work for one of her pastoral groves. Lalanne’s poetic world started with imprints,… Read more
