Etienne allegrain louis xiv biography
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The splendour of the Palace of Versailles springs up in the Middle East
Exoticism was the flavour of the month every month at the Palace of Versailles in its heyday, where French versions of chinoiserie and vaguely Ottoman turquerie vied for prominence in the private apartments of the Bourbon kings, their consorts, their mistresses and their families.
This absorption of far-flung motifs has left its mark on Versailles’s surviving objects from the French Royal Collections—in everything from a mid-18th-century bronze-mounted Chinese porcelain vase, presumably used as a perfume fountain by Madame de Pompadour, to Louis XVI’s late-18th-century porcelain-plaque harem scenes, once displayed in a chamber with his most precious goldware.
This month, more than 100 of these objects, recalling palace life in its pre-revolutionary pomp, will be reconvened for an exhibition in the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Versailles and the World draws on the collections of the Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon and the UK’s Royal Collection Trust, among others. A version of the show was mounted at Versailles in 2017 and then New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018.
In 1682, Louis XIV moved the French court from Paris to his palace at Versailles, which transformed the one-time h
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Promenade of Louis XIV in Front of the North Parterre
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With frame: 98 13/16 in. × 10 ft. 3 13/16 in. × 2 9/16 in. (251 × 314.5 × 6.5 cm)