The Salon de la Princesse in the Hôtel de Soubise
The oval Rococo room in Paris with paintings and gilded stucco.
The Salon de la Princesse is one of the best-known Rococo rooms in France. Germain Boffrand let the rounded forms flow into one another so that no sharp corners break the lines.
The paintings, which tell the story of Psyche, are by Charles-Joseph Natoire. The room is now in the French National Archives.
Materials: Stucco, wood and gilding, paintings by Charles-Joseph Natoire
Manufacture: Decorated 1735–1740 by Germain Boffrand in the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris.
The oval plan with rounded corners.
The painted fields above the doors.
Mirror doors and gilded stucco in flowing forms.