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Originally the panelling was covered with gesso (a thick, chalky compound) and even finer detail was carved into this before it was painted in white and violet colour. This pretty room only survived for two years before it was demolished by Louis XXVI. Panels from it also survive in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. 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Two other panels, 73-1896, 966-1900 and 967-1900 are fragments from the same scheme. The salon was commissioned by Louis XV in 1771, installed in 1772 and demolished by Louis XVI in 1774 and its  fragments dispersed. 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\r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Carved oak panel or pilaster (pair with 967-1900) with floral ornament of intertwined, rising, floral garlands, flanking a central stem, the topmost section enclosing three lilies","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gilles, François. \"Orner les croisées au XVIIIe siècle,  l'exemple des \"guichets\" du salon de Madame du Barry à  Fontainebleau\" <i>Monumental,</i>   2020 Vol I pp 48-51"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["966-1900"],"accessionNumberNum":"966","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1900,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":true}}