Redecorating so Mary Todd Lincoln or the Empress Eugenie would feel right at home. Imagery from the 1865 pattern and sample book by Hippolyte Gruz titled “Motifs de peinture decorative pour appartements modernes.”Hippolyte Gruz was a prominent French interior decorator and painter known for his ornate decorative schemes for fashionable hotels and residences.

Art book/folio, Aspirational decor from folios and magazines., Uncategorized 4 Minutes
Frontispiece, Image 7 of Motifs de peinture décorative pour appartements modernes par Hippolyte Gruz Peintre – Décorateur. MCXXXLX. C. Claesen, Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n8/mode/1up
Front cover, Image 1 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES. Hippolyte Gruz, author. C (Charles) Claesen editor, printer and litographer. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via \https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/mode/1up
Venteaux de Porte: Genre de Louis XVI; LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 12 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n12/mode/1up
Panneau Tenture – Dessus de Porte; Genre Louis XVI. LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 24 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n24/mode/1up
Ecoincons a motif; Genre Louis XVI. LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 30 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n30/mode/1up
Motif d’Angle – Motif d’Entourage – Motif dans Partie Cintrée; Genre Louis XV; LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 66 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n66/mode/1up
Fond de Tenture; Louis XIV; LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 88 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n88/mode/1up
Motif d’Incrustations; Genre Louis XIV; LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 116 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n116/mode/1up
Plafond – Chambre a Coucher; Genre Louis XIII. LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 126 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n126/mode/1up
Lambris – Salle a Manger – Lambris – Salle de Bain; Genre Renaissance; LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 172 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n172/mode/1up
Lambris – Salle a Manger; Genre Renaissance; LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 210 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n210/mode/1up
Plafond – Fumoir; Genre Renaissance Moderne. LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 222 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n222/mode/1up

Lambris – Panneaux – Genre Renaissance – Grec -Moderne. LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 262 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n262/mode/1up
Frise Courants en Feuillage. LA PEINTURE DECORATIVE. Designed and drawn by H. Gruz. Charles Claesen Éditeur, printer and lithographer. PARIS – LIÉGE – BERLIN. Image 282 of MOTIFS DE PEINTURE DECORATIVE POUR APPARTEMENTS MODERNES by Hippolyte Gruz. Published in 1865. Collections of the Caroline Simpson Library, Museums of History, New South Wales. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/Gruz11378/page/n282/mode/1up

99% of the works, folios, and books involving art lithographs, engravings and later chromolithographs and pochoir prints were done in Paris. As this was. Where the superspecialists were who could make your work truly sing.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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