Gallery
| Petite galerie – view of the central ceiling vault, engraving by Simon Thomassin (1655-1733) after Pierre Mignard (1612-1695), late 17th century | Deuxième salon de la Petite galerie – view of the ceiling vault, engraving after Pierre Mignard (1612-1695), late 17th century | Salon de l'abondance detail of the ceiling depicting Louis XIV’s nef that was housed in the cabinet des médailles, René-Antoine Houasse (1645-1710), 1683 |
| Degré du roi the king's private staircase | Pièce de la vaisselle d'or | Cabinet des jeux of Louis XVI |
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)