Blue and white lacquered wood panelling that... - Lot 258 - L'Huillier & Associés

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Blue and white lacquered wood panelling that... - Lot 258 - L'Huillier & Associés
Blue and white lacquered wood panelling that used to decorate the former Chinese salon of Queen Mary Leszczynska at Mouchy Castle, including : - two double doors and frames - four panels veneered with engraved mirrors (300 x 64 cm) - ten panels of different sizes - large mirror panelling (approx. 250 cm) - two single-door panellings and trumeau Regency style, 19th century (wear and tear and acc) 300 x 190 cm for the doors A framed extract from the Queen's will, bequeathing the cabinet to the Countess de Noailles, is attached. All of these wood panelling served as a showcase for Queen Marie Leszczynska's "Chinese cabinet", now kept in the Château de Versailles. It is one of the last and rare 18th century painted ensembles still preserved. Commissioned in 1761 by the Queen, the paintings in this Chinese cabinet were preserved before their recent acquisition by Versailles, by the descendants of the Countess de Noailles. " Marie Leszczynska, wife of Louis XV, had a "Chinese cabinet" installed in 1747 in her interior apartment, on the site of Marie-Antoinette's future library. As early as 1761, she decided to replace it with a set of canvases, this time called the "Chinese cabinet". The paintings were executed by five painters from the King's Cabinet, Coqueret, Frédou, de La Roche, Prévost, Jeaurat, as well as by the Queen, a painter in her own time. However, the testimony of Madame Campan, a reader of Mesdames, minimizes the involvement of the royal artist: "[The Queen] had reserved only the drapes and small accessories for herself. "At the heart of her interior cabinets, in this space that Marie Leszczynska calls her laboratory, the canvases are embedded in panelling. Marie Leszczynska died in June 1768. In her will, she bequeathed the "Chinese cabinet" to her lady-in-waiting, the Countess of Noailles. The works were then transported, with mirrors and panelling, to the Hotel de Noailles-Mouchy, rue Saint-Do
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