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This interior belonging to the First Reserve Apartment
was decorated by Alexander Briullov after the 1837 fire in the style
of the French Renaissance. It now houses a display of French decorative
and applied art from the 17th century. Masterpieces of this collection
included a cupboard decorated with intarsia and marquetry in the workshop
of Andre Charles Boule, the foremost cabinet-maker to King Louis XIV,
and an ebony cabinet decorated with relief scenes from the story of
Joseph. The Gobelins tapestries September: the Chateau de Chambord.
The King's Cortege and Spring were created from cartoons
by Charles Le Brun. The enormous head of a state bed is adorned by
magnificent embroidery. |
