I'm back with a collection of paitings by four of the most iconic french rococo masters!
In addition to mythological depictions, rococo paintings often showed gallant or even frivolous scenes. Therefore, they were particularly suitable for private cabinets, where only the closest and most intimate friends were received.
I created the mesh and texture of the frame myself in Blender. There are 40 painting swatches in total by the following painters:
1-13 - François Boucher (1703-1770)
14-25 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
26-34 - Jean François de Troy (1679-1752)
35-40 - Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
Pauline Pollmann et Diego Le Fur dans “Jeanne du Barry” biopic de Maïwenn - sur la vie de la Comtesse du Barry (1768-1793) dernière favorite du Roi Louis XV (1715-1774) - mai 2023.
28 mars 1757 : exécution de Damiens pour tentative d’assassinat sur Louis XV ➽ http://bit.ly/Execution-Damiens L'assassin ne se départit de sa bonne humeur que lorsqu’on vint le chercher pour le transporter à la Chambre de la question, et cependant qu’il entendait son arrêt, on prenait des mesures pour l’exécution ; tout le guet à pied était rangé autour de la barrière palissadée, où l’échafaud allait être dressé. Pas moins de vingt bourreaux avaient été commandés pour la circonstance
From what I have seen, I am glad that the Dauphin, the future Louis XVI appears to have an important role; it shows the prince hunting with his grandfather and La Barry, as was the case. Louis actually had a good relationship with La Barry, who was against the Austrian alliance since it had been the work of her predecessor, La Pompadour.
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Expo Louis XV au Château de Versailles, marbre de Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785) réaliser en 1753 “L’amitié sous les trait de Madame de Pompadour » maîtresse-en-titre du roi jusqu’en 1751. Dans les années 50, la relation charnelle laisse place à l’amitié. #versaillespalace #versailles #history #chateaudeversailles #patrimoine #louisxv #art #amitie (à Château de Versailles) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnWkQEDoUrQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Thibault Bonenfant et Maïwenn dans “Jeanne du Barry” biopic de Maïwenn - sur la vie de la Comtesse du Barry (1768-1793) dernière favorite du Roi Louis XV (1715-1774) - mai 2023.
The Queen antechamber also known as Antichambre du grand couvert was, as its name suggests. used for the public supper ceremony in which the king had his supper with his family in front of the court gathered in the room. During Louis XV's time a large table was placed in front of the fireplace and two high backrest seats for the royal couple, extra stools were added when the royal children ate supper with their parents, the court watching the supper were either standing or sitting on one of the 9 benches covered in crimson fabric and a gilded wood frame and facing the table.
The grand couvert ceremony during Louis XV's reign took place for every supper except for the King's hunting days-and he did hunt several times a week-.
What's interesting is the state of that room when it wasn't used for those special supper in which it just became once more a regular antechamber..Or did it?
When visiting that room outside of those ceremonial supper events one would notice something a little odd :crimson screens placed one next to the other forming an artificial wall inside the room
This detail isn't mentioned on the Versailles website nor on any site I can think of, but appears clearly in the 1765 inventory that can be consulted in the french national archives doc O1 3451
"4 folding screens made out of 6 pieces each made out of crimson plush, 7.5ft tall" of course the measurements were in french 18th century units so 7ft 1/2 would be in metric 2m44 or around 8ft in british imperial which is abnormally tall for screens of the time. But what was behind those ? Well another set of screens!
No assembled folding screens this time but 17 individual pieces 7ft tall each which is 2.24m in metric or 7ft5 in british imperial, this time in yellow painted wood. They were placed one next to other to created what we could call a separation for three small rooms within the larger antechamber.
But why to make rooms using screens as walls instead of proper walls? Well so they could be disassembled quickly for the public supper ceremony of course!
But what were those three rooms used for? To answer that question we need to look at the next page of the inventory :
Those rooms were used as bedrooms for the night staff! One room for a footman one for the room maid and one for a physician from the faculty of medicine, interestingly both the maid and the faculty member had canopy beds with a crimson canopy as mentioned in the inventory the canopy is described by the term "pavillon" which in French 18th century bed terminology meant this type of canopy :
of course we should have expected the canopy to be small enough to fit behind that 7ft 5in yellow screen wall.
24 septembre 1724 : création de la Bourse de Paris ➽ http://bit.ly/Creation-Bourse-Paris Si au XVIe siècle il n’y avait pas encore à proprement parler de Bourse en Europe, on y trouvait des comptoirs de commerce, et c’est deux siècles plus tard que par un décret du Conseil du roi, la Bourse de Paris reçut une existence et une dénomination officielles