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from left: the king’s private apartments.
Marie Antoinette’s jewellery cabinet
(1787). The queen’s private apartments
with Louis XVI Giving Final Instructions
to the Comte de la Pérouse by
Nicolas-André Monsiau (1817). Carpet
detail in the bedroom of Louis XV’s
daughter Madame Victoire. Portrait of
Marie-Therese-Charlotte and Louis-
Joseph-Xavier, Premier Dauphin, by
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1784).clockwise from left: the Foyer de
l’Opéra with The Youth and the Health
by Augustin Pajou (1770). Marie
Antoinette’s bedroom in the Petit Trianon.
Catherine Pégard, president of Versailles.
Ceiling detail from the Royal Chapel.
The Opera Royal, designed by
Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1770). Furniture
detail from Marie Antoinette’s bedroom.
opposite page: the work desk of the
Dauphin (1745) in the king’s private study
will feature in the NGA’s exhibition.