{"id":13235,"date":"2019-12-03T17:37:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T16:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/collection-et-ressources\/les-collections\/%categories_collection%\/the-cour-ovale-at-the-chateau-de-fontainebleau\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:00:28","slug":"the-cour-ovale-at-the-chateau-de-fontainebleau","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/www.chateaudefontainebleau.fr\/en\/collection-et-ressources\/les-collections\/paintings\/the-cour-ovale-at-the-chateau-de-fontainebleau\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cour Ovale at the Ch\u00e2teau de Fontainebleau"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pierre-Justin Ouvri\u00e9 (1806-1879)<\/strong>
1840<\/strong>
Oil on canvas<\/strong>
H. 117.5 cm;L. 175 cm<\/strong>
Fontainebleau, National Museum of the Ch\u00e2teau, INV. 7068<\/strong>
The Pope\u2019s Apartment<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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"Such was the bloodstained act in the Galerie des Cerfs – in the same place where one finds today the bed in which I rested during my stay in Fontainebleau – that it marked the memory of Louis XIV's hospitality to a woman who had voluntarily abdicated her crown. \u201cWhile staying at Fontainebleau in October 1834, the Austrian ambassador\u2019s nephew, Rodolphe Apponyi, described in his diary the bloody episode of the murder of the Marquis de Monaldeschi who was accused of treason on November 10th 1657 and executed within the walls of the Galerie des Cerfs according to legend.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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In this painting presented at the Exhibition of 1840, Pierre-Justin Ouvri\u00e9 harks back to Queen Christina's stay at Fontainebleau. The painter was already familiar with the castle which he had painted many time before and here he provides a view of the Cour Ovale (Oval Court) from the keep under the setting sun. The bottom view enables him to describe in detail the height of the buildings that border the courtyard: on the right is an open window in the ballroom, while on the left, Serlio's portico is forged in golden pink light. The castle\u2019s brick chimneys and the courtiers' costumes coloured streaks warm the mineral hues of the architecture. The fleeting lines of the buildings draw the eye towards the composition\u2019s background where the grand Porte Dauphine gate and its domes emerge from a soft layer of clouds of blues, yellows and pinks. A crowd of small characters in period costumes at the centre of the painting are crowding around Queen Christina's carriage which has just entered the courtyard and its haphazard cobblestones.
It is not so much the terrible heart of the drama that interests the painter but the stately architectural scene that entices him, as it usually did. <\/p>\n

Exhibitions
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Pierre-Justin Ouvri\u00e9 (1806-1879) 1840 Oil on canvas H. 117.5 cm;L. 175 cm Fontainebleau, National Museum of the Ch\u00e2teau, INV. 7068 The Pope\u2019s Apartment decouvrir l’appartement du pape “Such was the bloodstained act in the Galerie des Cerfs – in the same place where one finds today the bed in which I rested during my stay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3177,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories_collection":[326],"class_list":["post-13235","collection","type-collection","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_collection-paintings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Cour Ovale at the Ch\u00e2teau de Fontainebleau | Ch\u00e2teau de Fontainebleau<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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