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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean Berain the Elder was a draughtsman and designer, painter and engraver of ornament, the artistic force in the Royal office of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi where all the designs originated for court spectacle, from f tes to funerals, and many designs for furnishings not covered by the B timents du Roi. The Berainesque style of light arabesques and playful grotesques was an essential element in the style R gence that led to the French rococo. Born in the Austrian Netherlands, the son of a master gunsmith, in whose line of work engraving was a prominent technique, he spent his career at Paris. Long after his death the connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette wrote of him, Nothing was done, in whatever genre that it might have been, unless it were in his manner, or where he had given designs for it.

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