Three rooms and only nine paintings.
But what rooms and what paintings!
The Sun King's favorites among the 700 he has collected!
In Versailles, the castle recovered these masterpieces.
Valentines from Boulogne, dream portraits of the evangelists Matthew, Luke, John and Mark, with the same French Caravaggesque
The Denarius of Caesar
in addition .
Or this
Hagar and the Angel
by Giovanni Lanfranco, a jewel of Italian Baroque compatible with young French classicism and its demand for balance.
These exceptional treasures, each duly restored beforehand, had been sent to the Museum of Fine Arts in Amiens in exchange for the "exotic hunts", a series painted mainly by François Boucher and Nicolas Lancret between 1735 and 1739, loaned for the exhibition Louis XV which ended on February 19 in Versailles.
Returning, however, they did not return to their original location, the central space of the palace.
The king's official bedroom, recreated fifty years ago in its layout…
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