Enfilade

Opening soon (for just one week) at the Grand Palais:

Le Trésor Retrouvé du Roi-Soleil / The Rediscovered Treasure of the Sun King

Grand Palais, Paris, 1–8 February 2026

Curated by Wolf Burchard, Emmanuelle Federspiel, and Antonin Macé de Lépinay

For the first time in history, the monumental carpets commissioned by Louis XIV for the Louvre’s Grand Gallery are brought together and displayed beneath the glass roof of the Grand Palais.

In 1668, as King Louis XIV prepared to make the Louvre his royal residence, he entrusted his First Painter, Charles Le Brun, with a bold and magnificent commission: the creation of 92 carpets, woven at the Savonnerie Manufactory, to adorn the floor of the palace’s most majestic gallery. Each carpet, nine meters wide, was meant to form a spectacular decorative ensemble, one of the most ambitious ever conceived for a royal palace. Fate, however, took a different course. Never installed in the Louvre, these treasures crossed the centuries through revolutions, sales, and dispersals. Today, 41 original carpets remain in the collections of the National Manufactories, 33 of which are complete. Brought together for the first time beneath the glass roof of the Grand Palais, alongside a carpet designed for the Galerie d’Apollon, they offer a display of rare magnificence. A unique and historic event, lasting just one week, inviting visitors to discover these jewels of French heritage in a setting worthy of their splendor.

Exhibition co-produced by the GrandPalaisRmn and Les Manufactures nationales – Sèvres & Mobilier national.

Curators
• Wolf Burchard | Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Emmanuelle Federspiel | Conservatrice en chef du patrimoine, inspectrice des collections des Manufactures nationales – Sèvres & Mobilier national
• Antonin Macé de Lépinay | Inspecteur des collections des Manufactures nationales – Sèvres & Mobilier national

Scénographie
• Clément Hado and Anthony Lelonge – Manufactures nationales