page_title: Château de Meudon
section_title: Parade chamber of Monseigneur
hierarchical_section_title: Château de Meudon / Detail of the domain / Château-Neuf (new castle) / Parade chamber of Monseigneur
caption_attribution_description: Blatt aus: Mois grotesques par bandes (Monatsbilder, entworfen für die Gobelins im Schloss von Meudon); Kupferstichfolge, Anfang 18. Jh.
context_page_description: Meudon Castle, also known as the Royal Castle of Meudon or Imperial Palace of Meudon, is a French castle located in Meudon in the Hauts-de-Seine department. At the edge of a wooded plateau, the castle offers views of Paris and the Seine river, as well as of the valley of Chalais. Located between Paris and Versailles, in the heart of a hunting reserve, the castle has an ideal topography for large gardens. It had many successive owners from the Renaissance until the fall of the Second French Empire. It should not be confused with the Bellevue Castle, also located in Meudon.
  Famous past residents include: Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Duchess of Étampes; the Cardinal of Lorraine, Abel Servien; François Michel Le Tellier Marquis de Louvois, and Louis, Grand Dauphin, also known as Monseigneur, who linked the Chaville Castle to Meudon Castle. The Château-Vieux burned down in 1795 and was rebuilt as the Château-Neuf, which in turn burned down in 1871. Demolition was considered, but most of the castle was preserved and became an observatory with an astronomical telescope in 1878, it was then attached to the Observatory of Paris in 1927.
context_section_description: The inventory of 1775 indicates for the parade chamber the following decoration:
  The room is illuminated by two windows on the east, wooden paneling, varnished and gilded on wood, sculpted and gilded cornice, large alcove supported on pilasters. Two paintings above the doors, painted on canvas, each 4 feet 9 inches wide by 3 feet 3 inches high. One represents a golden vase filled with different flowers, set on a marble ledge. In the background are two columns surrounded by garlands of flowers. The other represents a gold vase with a handle filled with different flowers, stoned on a stone fullteam, beside another vase. And on the other side a piece of drapery which falls on the edge of the full. These two paintings are by Fontenay. In this room is under the glass troughs two tables of green campan marble of long supported on feet consolle gilded and sculpted.
  Originally, the alcove was decorated with the grotesque 12 months of Claude Audran III from the Gobelins, which still keeps nine of the twelve originals. The inventory of Crown furniture makes the following description:
  "A three-piece tapestry of low-woven tapestry, wool and evening, enhanced with gold and silver, manufactured in Paris, the Gobelins manufactory, the design by Audran, On twelve bands of daffodil, the divinities who preside at the twelve months of the year, under grotesque porticoes of different shapes, accompanied by the attributes of each divinity, grotesques, grooves and ornaments, with the sign of the month, separate daffodil bands By other narrower stripes, with a purple background, laden with mosaics, and the figures of Louis of France, all of silver, the top and bottom borders like the bands Narrow, with silver shells and dolphins, the curtain containing 9 aunes 1/8 of course on 3 aunes ¼ high, made expressly for the chamber of Monseigneur, in his apartment of the new castle in Meudon."
  Here is the list of the gods attached to the months grotesques:
  "January under the protection of Juno"
  "February under the protection of Neptune"
  "March under the protection of the god Mars and Minerva"
  "April under the protection of Venus"
  "May under the protection of Apollo"
  "June under the protection of Mercury"
  "July under the protection of Jupiter"
  "August under the protection of Ceres"
  "September under the protection of Vulcan"
  "October under the protection of Minerva and Mars"
  "November under the protection of Diane"
  "December under the protection of Vesta"
caption: The months of September and of October, Claude Audran III. Parade chamber.
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