I.1 Salomon Kleiner, Vienna, Upper Belvedere, Gallery, after Kleiner 1731–1740, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Prints and Drawings, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929, 29.77.6 3
I.2 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Vüe du Salon du Louvre en l’année 1753, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Wrightsman Fund 2006, 2006.84 5
I.3 Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, Hôtel Choiseul, First Cabinet [Premier Cabinet], Choiseul Snuffbox, 1770–1771, Paris, Musée du Louvre, RFML.OA2022.30.1. © GrandPalaisRMN (musée du Louvre)/Hervé Lewandowski 9
I.4 Bernard Picart, Roger de Piles, 1704, Art Institute of Chicago, The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collection, 1920.2386, Art Institute of Chicago/Art Resource, NY 11
I.5 Antoine Coypel, Democritus, 1692, 69 × 57 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, legs La Caze, MI 1048. © RMN-GrandPalaisRMN/Art Resource NY/Stéphane Maréchalle 23
I.6 Vienna, Stallburg, Entrance Room, reconstruction of display, after Haag/Swoboda 2010. © KHM-Museumsverband 31
I.7a–d Vienna, Stallburg, First Cabinet [Erstes Kabinett], reconstruction of display, after Haag/Swoboda 2010. © KHM-Museumsverband 32
I.8 Vienna, Stallburg, Second Corridor [Zweiter Gang], reconstruction of display, after Haag/Swoboda 2010. © KHM-Museumsverband 34–35
I.9 After Correggio, Madonna with St. Jerome, Douai, Musée de la Chartreuse, inv. no. 1104. © Ville de Douai, musée de la Chartreuse, photographe: Rémi Dieusaert 37
I.10 Versailles, Small Gallery [Petite Galerie], Main Wall, reconstruction of display, after Lett 2014 41
1.0 Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein, exterior view. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 47
1.1 Salomon Kleiner, Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein, ground plan, after Kleiner 1728, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Shelf mark JH.Art.f.16, standard number VD 18 14579251-001, 2 53
1.2 Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein, Audience Room. © Gemeinnützige Stiftung Schloss Weissenstein 57
1.3 Salomon Kleiner, Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein, Gallery, window wall, after Kleiner 1728, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Shelf mark JH.Art.f.16, standard number VD 18 14579251-001, 2 (18, no. 17) 59
1.4 Salomon Kleiner, Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein, Gallery, north wall, after Kleiner 1728, Staatsbibliothek Bamberg, Shelf mark JH.Art.f.16, standard number VD 18 14579251-001, 2 (19, no. 18) 59
1.5 Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein, Gallery. © Gemeinnützige Stiftung Schloss Weissenstein 60
1.6 Collector’s frame around Francesco Trevisani, Bathsheba, Pommersfelden, Schloss Weißenstein, Audience Room. © Gemeinnützige Stiftung Schloss Weissenstein 66
2.0 Vienna, Upper Belvedere, exterior view. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 73
2.1 Salomon Kleiner, Vienna, Upper Belvedere, ground plan of first floor, after Kleiner 1731–1740, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Prints and Drawings, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929, 29.77.6 74
2.2 Salomon Kleiner, Vienna, Upper Belvedere, Audience Room, after Kleiner 1731–1740, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Prints and Drawings, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929, 29.77.6 75
2.3 Salomon Kleiner, Vienna, Upper Belvedere, Picture Cabinet, after Kleiner 1731–1740, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Prints and Drawings, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929, 29.77.6 77
2.4 Salomon Kleiner, Vienna, Upper Belvedere, Gallery, after Kleiner 1731–1740, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Prints and Drawings, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929, 29.77.6 79
2.5 Collector’s frame from Upper Belvedere, around Frans van Mieris, The Mother, Turin, Galleria Sabauda. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 81
2.6 Collector’s Frame from Upper Belvedere, around Jan Davidz. de Heem, Still-Life, Turin, Galleria Sabauda. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 83
2.7 Collector’s frame from Upper Belvedere, now around Sodoma, Lucretia, Turin, Galleria Sabauda. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 84
3.0 Veüe et perspective du Palais Royal du côté du Jardin, c.1705 (after Recueil édité sous le règne de Louis XIV), Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, GR105. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource NY 86
3.1 Paris, Palais Royal, Plan of the western part, after The Orléans Collection 2018, photo courtesy of Jean-François Bédard 89
3.2 Paris, Palais Royal, Poussin Cabinet, display, proposed reconstruction by Guy Pimienta and Roland Baroin, after Mardrus 1996/Mardrus 2018 92
3.3 Giles-Marie Oppenord, Palais Royal, Plan of the final scheme for the Salon à l’italienne and petits appartements, 1719–1721, Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris, Cabinet des arts graphiques, D14415 96
3.4 Giles-Marie Oppenord, Palais Royal, Salon à l’italienne, proposed elevation for mirror wall, 1719–1721, New York, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1911-28-80, Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council 97
3.5a–d Paris, Palais Royal, Salon à l’italienne, reconstruction of display, by Filipe Policarpo and Mary Tavener Holmes 104–105
3.6 Simon-Louis du Ry, Palais Royal, Longitudinal section of the Salon à l’italienne and the Gallery of Aeneas, 1751, Marburg, Hessisches Staatsarchiv, HStaM, Karten P II, nr. 9546/I. 107
3.7 Simon-Louis Du Ry, Letter to Charles Du Ry, Paris, 26 September 1750, Hessen Kassel Heritage, Graphische Sammlung, Marb. Dep. II 413-3. © Hessen Kassel Heritage, Graphische Sammlung 108
4.1 Paris, Hôtel Crozat, floor plan, ground floor, after Jacques-François Blondel, Architecture Françoise (Paris 1752–56), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Drawings and Prints, gift of Mrs. Alexander McMillan Welch, 1946, 46.52.3(1–4) 119
4.2a–c Paris, Hôtel Crozat, Blue Cabinet, reconstruction of display, by Filipe Policarpo and Mary Tavener Holmes 122
4.3a–b Paris, Hôtel Crozat, Gallery, reconstruction of display, by Filipe Policarpo and Mary Tavener Holmes 123
4.4 Nicolas Lancret, The Concert, c.1720–1723, 36.8 × 45.6 cm, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, inv. 14880. URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/ZMLJAwXxJv 123
4.5a–c Paris, Hôtel Crozat, Red Cabinet, reconstruction of display, by Filipe Policarpo and Mary Tavener Holmes 124–125
4.6 Bacchus, Roman, 2nd century with 17th-century additions, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MA337. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Hervé Lewandowski 127
4.7 Peter Paul Rubens, Bacchus, 1638–1640, 191 × 161.3 cm, St Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum,
4.8a–h Paris, Hôtel Crozat, Octagon Cabinet, reconstruction of display, by Filipe Policarpo and Mary Tavener Holmes 130–131
5.1 Annotated ground plan of the Hôtel de Verrue and surrounding, reconstruction, by Franck Devedjian 144
5.2 Jacques Philippe Le Bas after Antoine Watteau, Assemblée galante, Los Angeles, The Getty Research Institute, Research Library, 85-BI4598 148
5.3 Peter Paul Rubens (workshop), Garden of Love, 93 × 122 cm, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, 986C. © Bildarchiv SKD 150
5.4 Paris, Hôtel de Verrue, Galerie des Carmes, wall opposite the fireplace, reconstruction of display, by Filipe Policarpo and Mary Tavener Holmes 151
5.5 Anthony van Dyck, Charles I, King of England, c.1635, 266 × 207 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 1236. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Adrien Didierjean 153
5.6 Nicolas Poussin, Inspiration of the Poet, c.1629, 183 × 213 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, RF1774. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Stéphane Maréchalle 154
5.7 Guercino, Erminia Finding the Wounded Tancred, c.1650, 244 × 297 cm, Edinburgh, The National Galleries of Scotland, Purchased by Private Treaty with the aid of The National Lottery, NG2656. Photo: Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland 154
6.1 Paris, Hôtel Jullienne, Plan of the Apartments, c.1756, after the Catalogue des tableaux de M. de Jullienne, New York, Morgan Library and Museum, inv. 1966–8, purchased as a gift of the Fellows 160
6.2 Paris, Hôtel Jullienne, Cabinet of Mr on the Courtyard [Cabinet de Mr sur la Cour (E)], c.1756, after the Catalogue des tableaux de M. de Jullienne, New York, Morgan Library and Museum inv. 1966–8, purchased as a gift of the Fellows 165
6.3 Paris, Hôtel Jullienne, Second Cabinet of Mr: Side facing the Entrance [2ème Cabinet de Mr: Côté en face de L’Entrée (F)], c.1756, after the Catalogue des tableaux de M. de Jullienne, New York, Morgan Library and Museum, inv. 1966–8, purchased as a gift of the Fellows 166
6.4 Paris, Hôtel Jullienne, Cabinet before the Gallery [Cabinet avant la Gallerie (H)], c.1756, after the Catalogue des tableaux de M. de Jullienne, New York, Morgan Library and Museum, inv. 1966–8, purchased as a gift of the Fellows 168
6.5 Paris, Hôtel Jullienne, Cabinet before the Gallery [Cabinet avant la Gallerie (H)], c.1756, after the Catalogue des tableaux de M. de Jullienne, New York, Morgan Library and Museum, inv. 1966–8, purchased as a gift of the Fellows 169
6.6 Paris, Hôtel Jullienne, Gallery: Window side [Gallerie: Côté des fenêtres (I)], c.1756, after the Catalogue des tableaux de M. de Jullienne, New York, Morgan Library and Museum, inv. 1966.8, purchased as a gift of the Fellows 170
7.1 François Lemoyne, Perseus and Andromeda, 1723, 183 × 149.7 cm, London, The Wallace Collection, P417. © The Wallace Collection 175
7.2 François Lemoyne, Hercules and Omphale, 1724, 184 × 91 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MI 1086, © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Franck Raux 177
7.3 François Lemoyne, The Bather, 1724, 149.86 × 111.76 cm, Dallas Museum of Art, lent by the Michael L. Rosenberg Foundation, image courtesy of the Dallas Museum of Art, 32.2019.8 178
7.4 François Lemoyne, Time Saving Truth, 1737, 180.5 × 148 cm, London, The Wallace Collection, P392. © The Wallace Collection 179
8.1 Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe and Louis Roucel, Choiseul Snuffbox, 1770–1771, Paris, Musée du Louvre, RFML.OA2022.30.1. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Hervé Lewandowski 186
8.2 Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, Octagon Cabinet [Cabinet à la lanterne], Choiseul Snuffbox, Paris, Musée du Louvre, RFML.OA2022.30.1. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Hervé Lewandowski RMN 187
8.3 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Blondel de Gagny’s Bedroom, 1771, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Cabinet du Dessins, F32746. © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY/Tony Querrec 190
8.4 Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, First Cabinet [Premier Cabinet], Choiseul Snuffbox, Paris, Musée du Louvre, RFML.OA2022.30.1. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Hervé Lewandowski 190
8.5 Louis-Nicolas van Blarenberghe, Bedroom [Chambre du Lit], Choiseul Snuffbox, Paris, Musée du Louvre, RFML.OA2022.30.1. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Hervé Lewandowski 193
8.6 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Child Playing with a Dog, 1767, 69.2 × 52.7 cm, England, Private collection, Luisa Ricciarini/Bridgeman Images 194
9.0 Dresden, Stallhof, exterior view. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 201
9.1 Dresden, Schloss, ground plan of the second floor, present state, by Helga Schmidt. Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen 204
9.2 Ground plan of the gallery in the Dresden Stallhof, after Recueil d’estampes 1753. Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kupferstich-Kabinett. © Deutsche Fotothek 207
9.3 Dresden, Stallhof, gallery, maquette, by Birgit Mußack, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. © Bildarchiv SKD 208
9.4 Dresden, Stallhof, Inner gallery, 1750, reconstruction of display, after Weddigen 2008 211
9.5 Correggio, La Notte, c.1529–1530, 256.5 × 188 cm, in its collector’s frame, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, nr. 152. © Bildarchiv SKD 213
9.6 Joos van Cleve, Adoration of the Magi, c.1526–1528, 251 × 185 cm, in its collector’s frame, Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, nr. 806A. © Bildarchiv SKD 214
9.7 Dresden, Stallhof gallery, Inner gallery, 1747, reconstruction of display, after Weddigen 2008 217
9.8 Dresden, Stallhof gallery, Inner gallery, 1754, reconstruction of display, after Weddigen 2008 218
9.9 Dresden, Stallhof gallery, Inner gallery, 1765, reconstruction of display, after Weddigen 2008 219
9.10 Dresden gallery frames. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 221
10.1 Nicolas Pigage, Düsseldorf, Schloss, gallery building, courtyard facade, after Pigage/Mechel 1778, Heidelberg, Universitäts-Bibliothek (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1267#0026) 228
10.2 Nicolas Pigage, Düsseldorf, Schloss, ground plan of the gallery building, after Pigage/Mechel 1778, Heidelberg, Universitäts-Bibliothek, (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1267#0026) 231
10.3 Schloss Mannheim, Second cabinet, hanging plan, after 1731, Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Bibliothèque. Photo: Institut national d’histoire de l’art 233
10.4a–c Nicolas Pigage, Düsseldorf, Schloss, gallery building, Third Room, second wall, after Pigage/Mechel 1778, Heidelberg, Universitäts-Bibliothek, (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1267#0026) 234–235
10.5 Nicolas Pigage, Düsseldorf, Schloss, gallery building, Fourth Room, second wall, after Pigage/Mechel 1778, Heidelberg, Universitäts-Bibliothek, (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1267#0026) 237
10.6a–c Nicolas Pigage, Düsseldorf, Schloss, gallery building, Fifth Room, second wall, after Pigage/Mechel 1778, Heidelberg, Universitäts-Bibliothek, (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1267#0026) 238–239
10.7 Peter Paul Rubens, Last Judgment, 1617, 608.5 × 463.5 cm, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek. URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/de/artwork/Dj4mkQbL5A 240
10.8 Düsseldorf collector’s frame, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek. bpk/Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen 241
11.0 Paris, Palais du Luxembourg, exterior view. Photo: Christoph Martin Vogtherr 244
11.1 Paris, Palais du Luxembourg, ground plan, 1747, Paris, Archives nationales AN, O1 1687B, 745 248
11.2 Andrea del Sarto, Charity, 1518, 185 × 137 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 712. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Tony Querrec 249
11.3 Paris, Palais du Luxembourg, Grand Cabinet, reconstruction of display, after McClellan 1994 251
11.4a–b Paris, Palais du Luxembourg, Throne Room, reconstruction of display, after McClellan 1994 with modifications by Christoph Martin Vogtherr 252
11.5 Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XV, 1730, 271 × 186 cm, Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/ 253
11.6 Antoine Coypel, Esther before Ahasuerus, before 1697, 105 × 137 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, inv. 8216. © Scala/Art Resource, NY 255
12.1 Anonymous, A Critic at the Salon of 1753, Frontispiece to [Jacques Lacombe], Le Salon, 1753, Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Library, David K.E. Bruce Fund, N5066. A6 1753 261
12.2 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, View of the Salon of 1767, Paris, private collection 265
12.3 Salon of 1767, reconstruction of display, after Pichet 2012 266
12.4 Salon of 1779, reconstruction of display, after Pichet 2012 267
12.5 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, View of the Salon of 1779, 19.3 × 44 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Peintures, RF1993–9. © RMN-GrandPalais/Art Resource, NY/Stéphane Maréchalle 268
13.1 Paris, Hôtel de Marigny, ground plan of first floor, 1751, Paris, Archives nationales (NII Seine 174, pièce 3), Atelier de photographie, Centre historique des Archives nationales 275
13.2 Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, Psyche Rescued by Nymphs, 1750, 83.8 × 115.5 cm, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1906P30, photo by Birmingham Museums Trust, licensed under CC0 278
13.3 François Boucher, Venus Disarming Cupid, c.1751, 113 × 93.3 cm, Los Angeles, Lynda and Stuart Resnick Collection 279
13.4 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, marginalia sketch of Alexander Roslin’s Portrait of the Marquis de Marigny, Livret of Salon of 1761, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Rés. Yd2 1132 282
13.5 Salon of 1753, reconstruction of display, after Pichet 2012 286
14.0a–b Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci and Bildergalerie, exterior views. © SPSG, photos: Leo Seidel / Hans Bach 288
14.1 Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci, Audience Room. © Bildarchiv Foto Marburg/SPSG, photo: Andreas Lechtape 294
14.2 Antoine Coypel, Rinaldo and Armida, 1700–1704, 110 × 74 cm, Potsdam, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, GK I 5678. © SPSG, photo: Leo Seidel 295
14.3 Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci, Audience Room, west wall. © Bildarchiv Foto Marburg/SPSG, photo: Andreas Lechtape 296
14.4 Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci, Audience Room, photo before 1945. © SPSG, photo 297
14.5 Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci, Kleine Galerie, photo before 1945. © SPSG 300
14.6 Nicolas Lancret, Embarkation for Cythera, 1719–1720, 73.5 × 60 cm, in its collector’s frame, Potsdam, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, GK I 5606. © SPSG, photo: Wolfgang Pfauder 302
14.7 Potsdam, Schloss Sanssouci, Kleine Galerie, frame types, after Dilba/Kleiner 2011 303
14.8 Potsdam, Bildergalerie, interior. © SPSG, photo: Hans Bach 304
14.9 Potsdam, Bildergalerie, hanging plan by Oesterreich, main galleries, 1773, Oesterreich 1773D, Potsdam, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. © SPSG, photo 305
14.10 Potsdam, Bildergalerie, hanging plan by Oesterreich, Cabinet, 1773, Oesterreich 1773C, Potsdam, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg. © SPSG, photo 308
14.11 Luca Giordano, Judgment of Paris, 244 × 326 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, (lost during or after World War II), GK I 441 Photo: Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Gustav Schwarz; Public Domain Mark 1.0 309
15.0 Houghton Hall, exterior view. Photo Christoph Martin Vogtherr 319
15.1 Houghton Hall, Carlo Maratta Room, fireplace with Maratta’s portrait of Clement IX. Photo: John Bodkin 325
15.2 Houghton Hall, collector’s frame in the Cabinet, detail. Photo: John Bodkin 326
15.3a–b Houghton Hall, Saloon, reconstruction of display, after Yaxley in Moore/Yaxley 2002 330–331
15.4 Houghton Hall, Carlo Maratta Room, reconstruction of display, after Yaxley in Moore/Yaxley 2002 332
15.5 Houghton Hall, Cabinet, reconstruction of display, after Yaxley in Moore/Yaxley 2002 333
15.6 Houghton Hall, Gallery, reconstruction of display, after Yaxley 1995 335
16.0 Holkham Hall, exterior view from the south. Photo: Pete Huggins (all rights reserved 2025 Hirmer Verlag) 337
16.1 Holkham Hall, Main Floor Plan of Holkham Hall II, after Matthew Brettingham’s Plans of Holkham (1761). Photo: Pete Huggins (all rights reserved 2025 Hirmer Verlag) 341
16.2 Holkham Hall, Saloon. Photo: Pete Huggins (all rights reserved 2025, Hirmer Verlag) 343
16.3 Holkham Hall, State Dressing Room (Landscape Room). Photo: Pete Huggins (all rights reserved 2025 Hirmer Verlag) 346
16.4 Holkham Hall, (West) Drawing Room. Photo: Pete Huggins (all rights reserved 2025 Hirmer Verlag) 349
16.5 Luca Giordano, St. John the Baptist Preaching, in its collector’s frame, Holkham Hall, State Dressing Room (Landscape Room). Photo: Pete Huggins (all rights reserved 2025 Hirmer Verlag) 352
17.1 Giambattista Tiepolo, Finding of Moses, c.1740–1745, 234.5 × 308 cm, in its collector’s frame, Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 95-5, Felton Bequest, 1959, image courtesy of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 358
17.2 Annibale Carracci, Madonna and Child with St. Lucy, St. Dominic, and St. Louis of France, c.1596–1598, 43.5 × 33.7 cm, in its collector’s frame, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2023.3 360
17.3 Aelbert Cuyp, Cattle Watering by an Estuary, c.1650, 59.7 × 72.4 cm, in its collector’s frame, The Bute Collection at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland 364
17.4 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Guardroom Interior, 1657, 70.8 × 62.5 cm, in its collector’s frame, The Bute Collection at Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland 366
17.5 Nicolas Lancret, Morning, before 1739, 28.3 × 36.4 cm, in its collector’s frame, London, National Gallery, Bequeathed by Sir Bernard Eckstein, 1948, NG 5867. © The National Gallery, London 367
18.1 Vienna, Upper Belvedere, ground plan, after Mechel 1783. © Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg 375
18.2 Vienna, Upper Belvedere, Second Floor, Third Room. Paintings mostly from the Roman School [Drittes Zimmer. Gemälde meist aus der Römischen Schule], reconstruction of display, after Fischer 2013. © KHM-Museumsverband 377
18.3 Vienna, Upper Belvedere, Second Floor, Fifth Room. Paintings mostly from the Bolognese School [Fünftes Zimmer. Gemälde meist aus der Bolognesischen Schule], reconstruction of display, after Fischer 2013. © KHM-Museumsverband 379
18.4a–b Vienna, Upper Belvedere, First Floor, Fourth Room or Rubens Hall [Viertes Zimmer oder Rubens Saal], reconstruction of display, after Fischer 2013. © KHM-Museumsverband 381
18.5 Peter Paul Rubens, Self-Portrait, 1638–1639, 109.5 × 85 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, inv. 527. © KHM-Museumsverband 382
18.6 Collector’s frame from the Mechel display, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum. © KHM-Museumsverband 384
C.1 Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, The Gallery of Randon de Boisset, 1771, Lyon, musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs, HENNEZEL 5272.a. Acquis dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. © Lyon, musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs/Sylvain Pretto 387