Isabelle Tillerot is an independent scholar of eighteenth-century French art. She is the author of Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps: Un regard singulier sur le tableau (2010) and Beautés arbitraires: Essai sur l'imagination àl'epoque moderne (2021).

• Foreword - Mark LedburyIntroductionThe Places of PaintingDecor and TimeThe Trajectory of the ArabesqueThe Orient of DecorationThe Oriental Idea of TasteAnother Way of Representing the WorldConclusion: Oriental Caprice or Making an Island of the Picture

Isabelle Tillerot is an independent scholar of eighteenth-century French art. She is the author of Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps: Un regard singulier sur le tableau (2010) and Beautés arbitraires: Essai sur l'imagination àl'epoque moderne (2021).

• Foreword - Mark LedburyIntroductionThe Places of PaintingDecor and TimeThe Trajectory of the ArabesqueThe Orient of DecorationThe Oriental Idea of TasteAnother Way of Representing the WorldConclusion: Oriental Caprice or Making an Island of the Picture

Isabelle Tillerot is an independent scholar of eighteenth-century French art. She is the author of Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps: Un regard singulier sur le tableau (2010) and Beautés arbitraires: Essai sur l'imagination àl'epoque moderne (2021).

• Foreword - Mark LedburyIntroductionThe Places of PaintingDecor and TimeThe Trajectory of the ArabesqueThe Orient of DecorationThe Oriental Idea of TasteAnother Way of Representing the WorldConclusion: Oriental Caprice or Making an Island of the Picture