Château de Madame du Barry
château in Yvelines, France
The Château de Madame du Barry is a château constructed at the end of the 17th century in Louveciennes, in the Yvelines department of France. It was expanded and redecorated in the middle of the 18th century by Ange-Jacques Gabriel for Madame du Barry. The estate's most famous building is the Pavillon de Musique, a music and reception pavilion constructed by Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1770–71). The pavilion sits in the middle of a park that was designed in the 19th century.
The Château
The château is an approximately cubic construction, of average size and modest appearance, which borders the chemin de la Machine, a favourite subject of the Impressionists Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.
History
In 1684, Louis XIV ordered the construction of a château in the proximity of an aqueduct built to bring water drawn from the Seine by the Machine de Marly to the Château de Marly. The King gave the building, then called Pavillon des Eaux, to Baron Arnold de Ville, the engineer originally of Liège who had conceived the hydraulic installation. The building was later given to Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, the eldest legitimised daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan.
At Louise's death in 1743, the château passed to her daughter, Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon Princess of Conti, who introduced Madame de Pompadour to court. At some point, the building reverted to the crown.
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