The Third Interconnecting Study

A small round room between the Picture Gallery and the Throne Room. The walls are lined with light artificial marble and decorated with inserts of blue glass with oil paintings on antique motifs (artist Johann Jakob Mettenleiter, 1798). Around them are frames made of the same material depicting flower garlands. The paintings were recreated anew based on several preserved fragments. The painting on the ceiling is an architectural perspective that creates the effect of the continuing space (decorator Pietro Gonzaga, 1798). The plafond was recreated in 1957 based on an original sketch and pre-war photographs.

The original furniture of the study consisted of six stools and a sofa upholstered in Lyon silks. Currently, the mahogany bureau is located in the office (Germany, David Roentgen, the late 18th century). On the bureau is a biscuit (unglazed) porcelain group Three Graces of the Meissen porcelain manufactory (Germany, Meissen, model by H. G. Juchtzer, 1785). Along the walls, there are chairs made by the French master Louis Delanois, the 1770s; two paired blue porcelain vases with biscuit groups of satyrs stand on their pedestals (the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, 1798, model by Jean-Domenicus Rachette). On the fireplace is a clock made by the French watchmaker Pierre-Augustin Caron, who became famous as the playwright Beaumarchais.