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Section and Interior Perspective of the Royal Chapel

Chaufourier French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899

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.

Section and Interior Perspective of the Royal Chapel, Chaufourier (French, Paris 1679–1757 St. Germaine-en-Laye), Pen and India ink, polychrome highlights over a graphite sketch on cream-colored paper

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