Hôtel Biron: Detail, one of the elliptical salons at the corner of the garden facade
Date
Circa 1910
Location
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
It has two elliptical salons that form attached pavilions at the corners of the garden front. Built by Jacques Gabriel and his associate Jean Aubert, in 1728-1731. Since 1919 it has housed the Musée Auguste Rodin. The house is still surrounded by three hectares (7.3 acres) of grounds. The house had boiseries carved in the full-blown rococo manner and has two elliptical salons that form attached pavilions at the corners of the garden front.
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