On loan to The Met The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) and Fire Screen
Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard French
Not on view
This armchair and fire screen belong to a set of furniture purchased in Paris to furnish the spacious apartment arranged for Gustav III of Sweden on the ground floor of the South Wing at Versailles. Normally reserved for the duchesse de Bourbon, the apartment was remodeled to comprise an antechamber, a dining room, a corridor, a reception room, a bedchamber, and a cabinet. How often the distinguished visitor used the apartment is not clear; most nights he returned to Paris.
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