3. Drawn at the end of the seventeenth century by André Le Nôtre for the
Grand Condé, the parterre à la française of Chantilly offers the most
dazzling view points of the visit
4.
5.
6.
7. The library
And archives of the Château de Chantilly in
figures: 44,000 ancient books including 700
incunables; 1500 manuscripts from which there
are 500 illuminated
8.
9.
10. The woodwork in the room
were carried out under the
direction of Jean Aubert in
1720 for the Duke of
Bourbon (1692-1740)
The large chest of drawers
with golden bronzes was
commissioned by King Louis
XVI to his room at Versailles
The Room of the Prince
11.
12. The Grand Cabinet Corner
This corner piece is
part of the apartment
of the Prince of Condé,
decorated to 1720
White and gold
paneling, patterned
relating to hunting, are
characteristic of the
early eighteenth
century
On the mantelpiece, a pendulum Louis XIV
13. The Monkey Room
“Singerie”
Charming boudoir
dated 1737, formerly
attributed to Watteau,
entirely decorated with
murals of Christophe
Huet, Great Singerie
represents a
superfluous decoration
of monkeys and
baboons Chinese,
fashionable at this time
15. The Grand Condé ordered
the painter Sauveur Le
Conte, specialist in military
painting, a series of eleven
paintings of its major
military actions and had
given specific directions for
their implementation
He died in 1686 while the
work, which lasted from
1686 to 1692, had barely
begun
16.
17. Furniture Georges Jacob
commissioned by Louis XVI
for the Salon des Jeux de
Saint-Cloud (1787)
The white and gold
paneling are characteristic
of the early eighteenth
century
The Music Room
18. Deer ‘s Gallery
It was a huge dining room reception of the Duke of Aumale, was built between 1875 and 1880 by the architect
Honoré Daumet
19.
20.
21.
22. The Picture
Gallerie
It is a large room
with beveled
edges, lit by a
glass roof; works
are presented
"frame to frame"
on the walls of a
Pompeian red,
depending on the
format, without
chronological logic
24. At the end of the gallery, reached by a
staircase is the rotunda, on the ground,
a mosaic from excavation in Pompeii
depicts a scene from chasse
25. Devoted to the
collection of portraits of
the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries,
notably from the
entourage of Clouet
father and son
Logis
Room Clouet
26.
27. Dedicated to St. Louis,
was built in 1882 by
architect Honoré
Daumet at the request
of the Duke of Aumale,
more or less where the
old chapel stood before
the Revolution
The chapel of the Hearts of the Princes of Condé
28. It is home to the
hearts of the
princes of Condé,
beginning with
Henry II de
Bourbon-Condé.
The last heart that
was laid from Louis
d'Orléans, eldest
son of the Duke of
Aumale, he died of
yellow fever in
Australia in 1866
It s a double chapel
30. Date of the
reconstruction of the
Grand Castle in 19th
century by architect
Honoré Daumet. It is
lavishly decorated
with marble floors
The hall of Honor
31.
32. Located at the heart
of the château,
under the vaults of
the former kitchens
33. Were built by the architect
Jean Aubert at the request
of Louis-Henri de Bourbon,
Prince de Conde , legend
said he thought himself
reincarnated as a horse and
wanted therefore be worthy
of his rank. He left France
one of the architectural
masterpieces of the
eighteenth century
The Great
Stables
34.
35. It runs at the side of
the stables
Racetrack
of Chantilly