Marie Antoinette's Boudoir at Château de Fontainebleau ✨
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Did you know that the boudoir--a small room for women to enjoy their privacy--was invented in the 18th century? Marie Antoinette, the French queen and the most fierce trendsetter in her days, was one of the first women to build boudoirs for themselves. In this video, I share the story about Marie Antoinette's gorgeous white-gold boudoir in the château de Fontainebleau and how it empowered her AND brought her to her demise.
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Image Credit:
Abraham Bosse, Manhood, plate three from The Four Ages of Man, 1636, Art Institute of Chicago, CC0 Public Domain
Abraham Bosse, Winter, from the series The Four Seasons, c. 1637, Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 Public Domain
After Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Marie-Antoinette, after 1783, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Queen Marie Antoinette of France and Two of Her Children Walking in the Park of Trianon, 1785, Photo by Erik Cornelius / Nationalmuseum / CC0 Public Domain
Château de Versailles, Cour Royale / Photo by Nono vlf / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY SA 4.0 ((creativecommon...)
Pierre Maleuvre after Sigmund Freudenberger, Le Boudoir, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Nicolas Delaunay after Nicolas Lavreince, La Consolation de l’absence, 1785, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Nicolas Delaunay after Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, Le Carquois épuisé, 1775, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Geraud Vidal after Nicolas Lavreince, Le déjeuner anglais, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Jean-François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince, Ha! La joli petit chien, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Jean-François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince, L’aveu difficile, 1787, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Joseph Duplessis, Portrait of Louis XVI, ca. 1777-89, Rijksmuseum, Public Domain
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon, c. 1777-80, Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 Public Domain
Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon, c. 1777-80, Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 Public Domain
Boudoir from the Hôtel de Crillon, c. 1777-80, Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0 Public Domain
Carle Van Loo - Marie Leszczinska, Reine de France (1703-1768) - Google Art Project, photo by 0AGLoul4eZBqRw at Google Cultural Institute, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
Fontainebleau Château de Fontainebleau Innen Boudoir der Königin 4.jpg / photo by Zarin CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommon...)
Jean Houel, Vue du siège et de la Prise de la Bastille. Le Gouverneur et la Garnison sont faits prisonniers le 14 juillet 1789, Musée Carnavalet, CC0 Public Domain
Nautilus Cutaway Logarithmic Spiral, photo by Christ 73, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommon...)
George Sigmund and Johann Facius, Apollo and the Muses on Mount Parnassus, 1794, Yale University Art Gallery, Public Domain
Auguste Pajou, Calliope c. 1763, National Gallery of Art, Public Domain
Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette in a Park, ca. 1780-81, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain
Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Yoland-Martine-Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, 1782 / Palace of Versailles / photo by Cybershot800i / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
Antoine-François Callet, Marie-Thérèse-Louise de Savoie-Carignan, princesse de Lamballe, 1782 / Palace of Versailles / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
Anonymous, Caricature Showing Marie Antoinette as a Leopard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain
Anonymous, Caricature Showing Marie Antoinette as a Dragon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain
Christiaan Josi after Cornelis van Cuylenburgh II, Marie Antoinette Brought to the Guillotine, 1793, 1798, Rijksmuseum, Public Domain
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Thank you very very much for your video. I spent 7 months of my time reproducing the painted panels in my own room, which means how close to details I had to observe. The colors are bright. What I also found which surprised me is that the room was also covered with heavy curtains on the windows of course but also the mirrors were surrounded as well. There were lots of furniture in the single room. A little detail you could have shown is the wooden floor spectacularly decorated .... again thank you !
Very interesting..thank you for sharing with us!
Great job. You did a really excellent presentation.
Very informative... loved ur commentary
I wouldn’t mind having a room like that!
Very good and informative
its a great watch, so intresting and your delivery is great!!
What a great video!
Great video! This discussion of the origins of the boudoir makes me think of Virginia Woolf's reflections in "A Room of One's Own." Woolf ruminates on the necessity of privacy (and quiet! and no interruptions!) for intellectual thought. Published nearly 150 years after Marie Antoinette's death, privacy was still a luxury to women.
@ArtStoryLab
4 жыл бұрын
That was exactly what I was thinking of when making this episode! And privacy has become especially hard to come by for both women and men these days with confinement 😭
Hermoso material ❤❤❤
I MET MARIE ANTOINETTE IN THE PALACE OF FONTAINEBREAU IN 2006 !!!! I NEVER FORGET !!!! SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL !!!! AND I WANT TO SEE HER AGAIN.. AND I WENT AGAIN. BUT..
Enjoyed the informative and fabulous presentation!
@ArtStoryLab
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Gary!
Very nicely done! p.s. The mother-of-pearl vide poche @9:24 was meant to hold sewing materials, definitely not food.
@ArtStoryLab
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the correction!
Marie Antoinette certainly didn't have what you'd call subtle, understated taste in décor. You can certainly see why all the people living in abject poverty didn't appreciate her lavish lifestyle.
@katalinjuhasz641
9 ай бұрын
MA IS ÉS MINDÖRÖKKÉ EZ VAN, GAZDAG ÉS MÉLYSZEGÉNY MINDIG LESZ