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with a boar’s head ; this is placed over different pieces of antique fculpture, which forma very pleafing whole. Two blocks of granitella, on one of which is depofifed an urn,or rather a vafe, on which children and birds are fculptured, by a nice hand ; on theother is a piece of porphyry, formed into the fhape of a tub. In another apartment isthe portrait of Charles I. , by Vandyke. Four beautiful heads, by Nogari. Chrift beingcrowned with thorns, a large painting, taken from a church, the author of which isunknown ; it is minutely beautiful. An urn with compartments, fupported by fourlion’s feet. An antique marble feat. A large urn; on the cover a young lion is feendevouring a bull. Two fmall baths, with hermaphrodites. A fmall ftatue of Paris ,with one knee-on the ground before the apple. A large modern vafe of granite, un-fortunately broken- A. handfome antique yafe, with ears to it, of very elegant fhapeand well preferred.. Befides thefe, you find on the tables or mantle-pieces of thefeapartments, vafes, buffs, and bronzes, either antique or copies.—In another apartmentare a number of large difhes of earthenware, known by the appellation of Raphaelware-, of it there is a great collodion; vafes of Swedilh porphyry, of an elegant formand fine workmanfhip: fome buffs, and a fmall ftatue of the god Pan. The whole ofthis fuite of apartments is fuperb; at the end is a tolerably large dining-room, which,however, does not correfpond with the reft. On the fide is a fmall theatre, where for-merly plays in French were afted; at prefent it ferves as an occafional mufic room.We heard a woman fmg here, who mull needs be fixty. years of age, fince flic fang atthe confecration of Iiis Majefty’s father in 1751 ; notwithfianding this her manner offinging was excellent, and much fuperior to that of the fingers of the opera of the pre-fent time.
From the firfl fquare faloon which we have previoufly noticed, you pafs through anarrow paffage to the King’s bed-chamber, in which is the bull of Madame de Brionne ;this chamber has a communication with a fmall apartment, ornamented with the portraitsof the Kings and Queens of France , done with a pen; the portrait of a lady in black,and that of the Baron d’Armfeldt, in a warrior’s drefs, by Vertmuller, a Swede , memberof the Royal Academy of France . You afterwards afcend, by a very narrow ffaircafe,to a fmall room between the two floors, the ornaments of which are perfectly beautiful;the defigns by MafreUier : it contains a number of bronze figures from the antique,prettily diftributed in little niches: from this room you pals into a chamber which theKing calls his divan ; it is extremely final!, and decorated very richly in the Turkilhffyle ; it is lighted by two lamps of much tafte, fupported by tripods from three to fourfeet high. When lighted, this divan is beautiful. As we entered thefe apartments weleft our fwords.
The fecond ftory confifts of a number of rooms; in one of them the King holds hislevee, the cafe commonly every other day from eleven to twelve. The apartment hasa grand and fmaller entrance, and every thing here is regulated upon the i'yltem of thecourt of Verfailles. Afterwards follows a very long gallery, in which the court aiTeru-bles on Sunday evening every fortnight, and next the card-room ; the grand gallerycommunicates with the Queen’s apartments; from the anti-chamber, through whichyou enter to the levee, and in which their Majefties dine in public, you pafs into the■council-chamber; this contains a number of paintings; one ofifize, a very fine piece,by LaireJJe , reprefenting the detection of Achilles. . The four fathers of the church, inone beautiful piece, by Rubens. Suzannah and the eld rs, by. the fame, very natural,fine, and well preferved. The family of Darius at the feet of Alexander, by Trevifani,one of his beft works. The portraits of Guftavus Vafa, of Charles XII. , and a beauti-ful one of Chriftina, by Beck. A buff of Guliavus Adolphus, and the Prince Royal,.
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