Splendeur de la Cour de Saxe, Dresde
à Versailles
Château de Versailles
Musée national de Château de Versailles, jusqu'au 23 avril
2006.
The pieces installed in the Gallery
des Glaces during this exceptional exhibition come from the Court that
Voltaire regarded as the second of Europe, after louis XIV,
the Court of Frederic Auguste 1st, Prince Electeur of Saxony and king
of
Poland, better known under the name of Auguste II the Fort. 300
sumptuous pieces of its personal collection are thus sheltered under
golds of Versailles during the restoration of the Green Vault of
Dresden which will lodge them definitively. Dresden, the Florence
of Elba, was particularly hurted by the bombardments at the
end of the second world war. The authorities had
fortunately taken care to move the treasures of its museums before the
flood of fire. The Courts of Saxony and Versailles maintained
close and family links during royalties. This
complicity finds itself in the exhibited works of art, with the
undeniable influences of style. Some treasures worthy of a royal
cabinet of curiosity are revealed, in particular the famous Dresden
chinas whose receipt was carefully kept. A saddle of embroidered
money and gold parade, offered by louis XIV to Auguste the Fort, shows
us the magnificence of the royal gifts of the time. Muds of
China with blue dragons with the traineau of the Court of Louis XV,
here a collection of toys of princes such as they never will exist
again.