
La Meridienne, Marie-Antoinette's Bed, Versailles
Robert Polidori's meticulous large-format photograph captures the intimate inner sanctuary of Marie-Antoinette's private bedchamber at the Palace of Versailles, where the opulent daybed known as La Méridienne rests in sumptuous splendor. The image renders the room's lavish silk upholstery, gilded furnishings, and ornate architectural details with extraordinary clarity and color fidelity, transporting the viewer into the preserved grandeur of 18th-century French royal life. Produced in a strictly limited edition of five plus artist's proofs and signed by Polidori in ink, this flush-mounted work exemplifies his celebrated archival documentation of historically significant interiors.
- Medium
- Signed in ink, printed title, date and number on a gallery label affixed to the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 5 plus artist's proofs.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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October 8, 2015
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Candida Höfer
German · b. 1944
Höfer creates large format color photographs of grand institutional and historical interiors, including palaces, libraries, and opera houses, capturing the same sense of opulent emptiness and architectural grandeur that Polidori achieves in his Versailles series. Her meticulous attention to gilded detail, symmetry, and preserved historical spaces makes her work a direct visual parallel to this royal bedchamber photograph.

Andreas Gursky
German · b. 1955

Gursky works in monumental large format color photography with extraordinary clarity and detail, often documenting spaces of overwhelming visual richness and human constructed grandeur. His technical precision and ability to render sumptuous surfaces and complex architectural environments with color fidelity closely mirrors Polidori's documentary yet aesthetically immersive approach to royal interiors.

Massimo Listri
Italian · b. 1953

Listri is renowned for his large format color photography of historic European palaces, libraries, and aristocratic interiors, focusing on the same 18th century opulence, silk textiles, gilded ornamentation, and preserved royal spaces that define this Polidori image. His work shares an identical subject matter, documentary reverence for historical grandeur, and rich saturated color palette.
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