Louvre France Luxurious King’s Apartments Guided Tour

Visit Louvre France Luxurious King’s apartments with Universal Tour Guide!
Before being one of the biggest museums of art in the world, the Louvre was inhabited for centuries by kings and emperors whose memory is still preserved in its rooms. During this 2-hours guided tour, you will walk into the footsteps of Napoleon III on a tour around his apartments and treasures.

Louvre France King’s Apartments Guided Tour Highlights

• Learn more about the Second Empire decorative art with an expert guide.
• Discover the wonders of this time: furniture, gilding, crystal, chandelier, paintings…
• Visit iconic places: the State dining room, the large drawing room…

Louvre France King’s Apartments Guided Tour Description Summary

During this special guided tour, you will discover Napoleon III apartments, symbol of the all-powerful luxury of this time. Napoleon III apartments are an exceptional testimony of decorative art under the Second Empire.

Louvre France King’s Apartments Guided Tour Detailed Description

Discover the large dining room, imposing by its long table and its shelf in blackened wood decorated with gilt bronze. Do not forget to look up to the ceiling (a luminous sky crossed by exotic birds) made by the talented Eugène Appert.

In the Department of Art Objects you will discover a unique set of objects of various shapes, materials and periods ranging from the early Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Some artworks:

• Apartments Napoleon III, small and large dining room
• Napoleon III Grand Salon
• Grand corsage knot of the Empress Eugénie
• Chest of Anne of Austria

Some objects that you will see belonged to royal personalities such as Marie Antoinette, The Duchess of Angouleme, Louis XIV, the Empress Eugenie…

You can observe there jewelry, ivory, ceramics, glassware, stained-glass windows, furniture, tapestries and much more!