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Other panels from the scheme are in the V&amp;A's collection (966 to 968-1999 and 73-1896). Originally the panelled interior was covered with gesso (a thick, chalky compound) and even finer detail was carved into the surface of this before it was painted in white and violet colour. This pretty room only survived two years before it was demolished by Louis XVI.  Panels from it also survive in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.","physicalDescription":"Narrow vertical carved oak pilaster in a modern, moulded frame. At the bottom, between two stems of jessamine is a vase from which issues a central flowering stem and two interlacing rose branches. Above are two doves perched on bunches of wheat ears. At the top is suspended a six-stringed lyre to which two laurel stems are attached by a ribbon, below branches of laurel.\n\n","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Ange-Jacques Gabriel","id":"AUTH404137"},"association":{"text":"architect","id":"THES265157"},"note":"Carving by Honoré Guibert working under the direction of  the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel"},{"name":{"text":"Honoré Guibert","id":"AUTH404138"},"association":{"text":"carver","id":"AAT25256"},"note":"Carving by Honoré Guibert working under the direction of  the architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Oak","id":"AAT12264"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oak, formerly covered in carved and painted gesso","categories":[{"text":"Woodwork","id":"THES48877"},{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"}],"styles":[{"text":"Neo-classicism","id":"x38958"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AA6429"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES341914"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Panel","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1772","earliest":"1772-01-01","latest":"1772-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Carved for the Salon of Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, at Fontainebleau. The Salon was ordered by Louis XV in 1772, installed in 1772 and demolished in 1774. "}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"968-1900","id":"O369952"},"association":"Pair"},{"object":{"text":"966-1900","id":"O369953"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"967-1900","id":"O321008"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"73-1896","id":"O369409"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Mr Henry Vaughan","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"5 feet 6 inches","unit":"ft","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"10","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Taken from departmental records. 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Other fragments are held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.\n(information supplied by Francois Gilles to Leela Meinertas January 2022)\n\nHonoré Guibert, was often employed by A.-J. Gabriel. He executed work at the Petit Trianon, Château de Bellevue, Opêra de Versailles Château de Menars etc etc.\n\nWhen the panels were bequeathed to the Museum in 1900 they were described as coming from Rambouillet. Vaughan had recorded on the back of 968-1900 the finish and colour scheme of the panels as he acquired them, quite probably their original finish because of the fine gesso work recorded, and presumably stripped under his orders. The carving was in violet against a white ground.  He also recorded that the architect George Basevi (1794-1845) had borrowed the carvings as inspiration when he was doing the mural decorations in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge in the late 1830s.\n\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Narrow vertical carved oak pilaster in a modern, moulded frame. At the bottom, between two stems of jessamine is a vase from which issues a central flowering stem and two interlacing rose branches. Above are two doves perched on bunches of wheat ears. At the top is suspended a six-stringed lyre to which two laurel stems are attached by a ribbon.\n\n","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gilles, François. \"Orner les croisées au XVIIIe siècle, l'exemple des \"guichets\" du salon de  Madame du Barry a Fontainebleau\" <i>Monumenta</i><i>l</i>,   2020 Vol I pp 48-51"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"candelabrum","id":"AAT37584"},{"text":"birds","id":"x35043"},{"text":"corn","id":"AAT11903"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["969-1900"],"accessionNumberNum":"969","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1900,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2005-07-20","availableToBook":true}}