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:
“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)
“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)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)