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Tabletop with Map of France

Various artists/makers

1684

Not on view

In 1714 the Versailles visitor Reverend James Hume described a table in the Trianon (the royal retreat in the gardens): "on which is a curious map of France . . . of diverse coloured Marble." The inscription indicates that the impressive tabletop, representing each of the provinces of France in 1684, was offered to Louis XIV by Claude Antoine Couplet, professor at the Paris Académie des Sciences. Glorifying the Sun King for his successes on the battlefield, the map includes recently seized territories in the north and east.

Tabletop with Map of France, Probably Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (French, established 1662), Hardstones, marble, alabaster, French — This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Title: Tabletop with Map of France

Manufactory: Probably Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (French, established 1662)

Designer: Design by Claude-Antoine Couplet (French)

Artist: Lapidary work probably by Horace Megliorini

Artist: Lapidary work probably by Ferdinand Megliorini

Artist: Lapidary work probably by Philippe Branchi

Artist: Lapidary work probably by Jean Ambrosio Gachetti

Date: 1684

Culture: French

Medium: Hardstones, marble, alabaster

Dimensions: Table top: 43 5/16 × 30 11/16 × 1 9/16 in. (110 × 78 × 4 cm)
From website: 35 1/4 × 43 3/8 × 30 13/16 in. (89.5 × 110.2 × 78.2 cm)

Classification: Stone-Furniture

Credit Line: Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon (V 3537), on long-term loan from the Musée du Louvre, Paris (OA 6632)

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