Robert de Cotte
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Robert de Cotte was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced. First a pupi
Robert de Cotte, 1701, pastel on paper by Joseph Vivien
Palais Rohan, Strasbourg, for Armand Gaston Maximilien, prince de Rohan, bishop of Strasbourg (planned 1727–8, built 1731–42)
Antechamber
Grand Cabinet (with decorated mirrors)
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
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Gilles-Marie Oppenordt was a celebrated French designer at the Bâtiments du Roi, the French royal works, and one of the initiators of the Rocaille and Rococo styles, nicknamed "the French Borromini".
Robert de Cotte
…Louis XV, coinciding with de Cotte's maturity, the artistic lead in France passed smoothly in 1715 from the Bâtiments du Roi to the work being done by Gilles-Marie Oppenord for the Regent, Philippe, duc d'Orléans, at the Palais Royal in Paris. No new architects were added to the rolls of the Bâtiments du Roi. De Cotte, one…
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt
Title page of the Grand Oppenord
Signed drawing of a writing desk
Palais-Royal. Preliminary design (c. 1716) for a bed alcove