Section and Interior Perspective of the Royal Chapel
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Visitors gesture in admiration of the towering heights of the Royal Chapel. An expert in the art of perspective, Chaufourier concentrated on architectural details: the arcades on the ground floor, the colonnade on the floor above, and the vault supported by a system of flying buttresses. The drawing includes some of the furnishings, which would be lost during the Revolution, including the pulpit by the sculptor-decorator François Antoine Vassé.
Artwork Details
- Title: Section and Interior Perspective of the Royal Chapel
- Artist: Chaufourier (French, Paris 1679–1757 St. Germaine-en-Laye)
- Date: ca. 1725
- Medium: Pen and India ink, polychrome highlights over a graphite sketch on cream-colored paper
- Dimensions: Unframed: 18 11/16 × 15 1/4 in. (47.5 × 38.7 cm)
Framed: 26 7/8 × 23 13/16 × 1 1/4 in. (68.2 × 60.5 × 3.2 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (INV.DESS 1202)
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts