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Nymphenburg Palace

Queen's study

This room, which is furnished with a small suite of chairs and a drawing table, was reserved for more intimate receptions and Queen Caroline’s personal interests.

The round table inlaid with exotic precious woods from Paris may have been a present to the Bavarian royal couple. Its pharaoh busts made of gilt bronze served as an inspiration for the further decoration of the room in the Egyptian fashion of the Napoleonic era. The set of furniture made in around 1810 in Munich is finished with the alder burl veneer that was popular at the time. The portraits show Caroline and her husband King Max I Joseph.

Caroline ordered the textiles for this elegant room from Pernon in Lyon, which was the leading silk manufactory of the day. In 2020 the wall covering of blue silk damask with its decoration of sunflowers and an orange-yellow border, which was no longer in existence, was successfully recreated according to the original pattern and weave. The elaborate curtains with their passements were also reconstructed. Strong colours and vivid contrasts were typical of the court Empire style.

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