Le Salon des Muses – Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656)

Artist/Designer: Charles Le Brun, Louis Le Vau, Andre Le Notre

Project Location: France

Figure 1: View of raised platform (South wall on plan) ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Screenshot from Virtual Tour )

Figure 2: View of windows (North wall on plan) ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Screenshot from Virtual Tour )

Figure 3: View of West wall ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Screenshot from Virtual Tour )

Figure 4: View of East wall ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Screenshot from Virtual Tour )

Figure 5: Ceiling perspective showing frescoes ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Screenshot from Virtual Tour )

Figure 6: Exterior ( Source | Accessed : March 31, 2022 | Photographer: Vaux-le-Vaux-le-Vicomte )

Figure 7: Louis Le Vau Plan ( Photographer: Cordey, Jean. Vaux-le-Vicomte. Éditions Albert Morancé, 1924. )

Style/Period(s):
Baroque

Primary Material(s):
Stone, Brick

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

Vaux-le-Vicomte Virtual Interior

Significant Date(s):
1656

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:

Ballon, Hilary, and Louis Le Vau. Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Blunt, Anthony. "The Early Work of Charles Lebrun-I." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 85, no. 496 (1944): 165-173.

Boulenger, Marcel. Nicolas Fouquet. Frédérique PATAT, 1933.

Cojannot, Alexandre. "Louis Le Vau et les nouvelles ambitions de l’architecture française (1634-1654)." PhD diss., Paris 4, 2011.

Cordey, Jean. Vaux-le-Vicomte. Éditions Albert Morancé, 1924.

Montagu, Jennifer. "The early ceiling decorations of Charles Le Brun." The Burlington Magazine 105, no. 726 (1963): 395-408.

Müller, Marion. "Représentation politique et ambition artistique. Le décor de Charles Le Brun pour la chambre des Muses au château de Vaux-le-Vicomte." Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. Sociétés de cour en Europe, XVIe-XIXe siècle-European Court Societies, 16th to 19th Centuries (2017).

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Building Address: 77950 Maincy, France

Patron: Nicolas Fouquet

Significant Dates: Fouquet purchased the estate in 1641, Built 1656-1661 by Louis Le Vau (architect), with Charles Le Brun (artist) and André Le Notre (landscape architect).

Associated Buildings by Louis Le Vau: Hôtel Lambert, Château de Versailles, Château de Vincennes, Louvre Palace, and Collège des Quatre-Nations

Associated Projects: The Kings Bedroom-Vaux-le-Vicomte and Le Grand Salon - Vaux-le-Vicomte

Tags: Baroque, Château, Palace

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