Queen's apartment at Versailles
The Queen's Private Cabinets were accessible to Her Majesty through the alcove in the bedchamber. These rooms are situated on a mezzanine overlooking the inner courts. The rooms are poorly lit. The Meridian Cabinet was once the oratory of the Duchesse de Bourgogne. It was redecorated by the Rousseau brothers after Mique's drawings at the birth of the Dauphin in 1781. A table made of petrified wood once belonged to Charles I of England. It was gifted to Antoinette from her mother. The blue Grenadière Cabinet is a reproduction. The paneling decorations in the Gold Cabinet are taken from antiquity. They include tripods, sphinxes, and carytids at the fireplace. This room was once the Duc de Bourgogne's bedchamber. Antoinette placed Oudry's pineapple over the door as an homage to the botanical research done at the Trianon under Louis XV's patronage. Furniture in the rooms include a commode by Riesener (1779) and a harp by Naderman. The commode once belonged to the Comtesse d'Artois. It was brought from Antoinette's bedchamber at Marly.