The King's Flowers
dal 1/7/2013 al 28/9/2013
Segnalato da
1/7/2013
The King's Flowers
Chateau de Versailles, Versailles
Paintings, watercolours on vellum and parterres
Paintings, watercolours on vellum and parterres recreates over the summer the refined and mannered atmosphere that dominated in the gardens of the Grand Trianon during the Ancien Regime. Thanks to an exceptional loan from the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, the exhibition presents the masterpieces of the royal collection of watercolours on vellum initiated by Gaston d'Orleans, the uncle of Louis XIV. Alongside these delicate and fragile botanical works, it present archive documents and flower paintings from the collections of the Palace of Versailles. The exhibition also evokes the ephemeral first palace of Trianon, the Porcelain Trianon, and recreates the scents of Flora's Palace thanks to the historic replanting of the parterres of the Grand Trianon by the gardeners of Versailles, based on documents from the period. Image: Hyacinth, Hyacinthus orientalis, Paris, Museum national d'histoire naturelle, All rights reserved.