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versions of the same story, Apollo and Daphne. The mythological scenes
in the other panels represent Diana and Endymion, Diana Bathing,
Venus and Adonis, Jupiter and lo and the Triumph of Galatea. The
choice of subject, pairs of lovers, suggests that the panels were
originally intended for the walls of a dressing room or closet. The
variable, but generally high quality of the painting, suggests that,
like most of the painted decoration at Montagu House, they were a team
effort. The baskets of fruit would have been painted by Monnoyer,
the mythological scenes by La Fosse, and the tromp l'oeil picture
frames would have been Rousseau's province. It seems probable that
the pans here at least begun before La Fosse returned to .t
the end of 1691.
A second series of panels, fifteen in. number, also at Boughton,
are painted in gold on a dark green background, and. can be closely
related to the engravings in Daniel Marot's first and second Livre
d'Ornements. The arms of John, 2nd Duke of ontagu and his wife Mary,
the youngest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, have been substituted
for those of William III in the original designs. Gervase Jackson-Stops
has attributed this second series to another Huguenot, Mark Anthony
Hauduroy, on stylistic grounds, although no mention of his name has
yet turned up in the accounts.
Mark Anthony Hauduroy belonged to a family of architects and
painters, which included the architect Samuel Haudurpy(who designed
the garden front of Dyrham Park,Avon) and the painter Louis Hauduroy.
A Mr.Hauduroy also worked at Dyrharn in the capacity of decorative
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painter, and his very interesting account for painting the rooms survives'
Headed 'An Account of ye measure of Mr.Hauduroy's Painting & ye Prices
agreed for ye doing of it', the only item which is even recognisable
today is 'The Balcony Room', which was repainted in the nineteenth
centuryHauduroy charged 33.15.Ok for '225 yards & 1 foot marble
Colour at 3s k yard, and 19.18.00 for 'laying 199 Bookes of Gold at
2s ye Booke'. The Balcony Room looks out over the garden, and forms (P1.46)
part of the additions to the old house made by Samuel Hauduroy. The
document also lists the colours used for the servants' quarters and
the nursery, which were to be painted 'umber'. The'Pavillion,family
parlour, slope room, the Great Parlour, the Great Stayres, the Slope
Chamber and closet, and the chamber over ye Servants were to
be painted 'Walnutt colour'; 'Wainscott colour t was applied to passages)