Le Grand Rocher
by Iryna Goodall
Title
Le Grand Rocher
Artist
Iryna Goodall
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Nestled behind the Chateau de Versailles there is a palace called Le Petit Trianon, meshed with a dreamy little hamlet and English gardens created for the Queen Marie Antoinette.
Originally built for Madame de Pompadour, Petit Trianon ultimately became a 19 year old Marie Antoinette’s exclusive residence, which was her refuge from the demands of formal ‘court life’ and her royal responsibilities.
Her reconfiguration of the Trianon gardens can be divided into two distinct phases.
The first, starting in 1777, corresponds to the creation of the English Gardens.
Subsequently, in 1783, she tasked Richard Mique with extending the gardens to the north and building a whole model village around an artificial lake.
Work began in the summer of 1783 and was completed in 1786.
The Queen’s Hamlet does not belong to any particular style, combining as it does various influences from rural architecture, but it does succeed in creating a sense of aesthetic coherency.
The cottages are set on the eastern bank of the lake, arranged in a crescent formation which is ideally viewed from across the water.
The “Big rock”, or Le Grand Rocher, whose laborious construction took four years, is the artificial mountain, surrounded by conifers, is the very source of the aquatic effect of this “Little Switzerland”, or the “Alpine Garden”. From a reservoir located at the back and fed by the Trèfle basin, the waters flow in torrential waters into the lake.
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