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The living room

In the living room, part of XVIIè, you find an architecture completely different, the chapels are decorated small capitals, in trompe-l'oeil. Furniture is of XVIIè

The Dutch silver plated bronze gloss, a large table of changer with the drawers in which one kept the currency and the plate of slate on which one registered the operations progressively.

Presentation The Hall The Dining Room The Living Room The chapel The Room of the Guards

   

At side a small table with plays, chess-board of XVIè, XVIIè, splendid part entirely formed of ivory and ebony, encrusted with marquetry florentine.
Two large chairs with arm dating from the end of XVIè (tapestry crushed strawberry).

A secretary having been carried out for Marie-Antoinette by Dubois, Maitre Cabinetmaker of the Court end of XVIIIè, decorations of greyness painted with the hand in trompe-l'oeil and imitating the frescos of Pompeï.

With the top of the secretary, panel of Pieter Balten, Flemish painter of XVIè, which recalls a little Breughel by the multiplicity of the scenes on this table, by the movement general of the characters and especially by its colors, the red and the green, which are very characteristic of the Flemish schools of XVIèThe living room of company

 
 
   
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