We pursue our continuing series of visits to the Carnavalet Museum this week. Today’s destination: a drawing room formerly in the hôtel particulier of the Dukes of Uzès.* Its most noteworthy feature is a set of splendid boiseries, or carved panels.
View of a drawing room salvaged from the hôtel d’Uzès.
The boiseries of this drawing room were designed and executed in 1767 under the supervision of the architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, who was also responsible for the decoration of the Café Militaire, as explained in a previous post.
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