The handsome tiled stove places this room in Northern Europe. The painted decoration derives from the Vatican Logge, popular since the publication at the end of the eighteenth century of hand-coloured etchings after Raphael's grotesques and of examples of the kind of decoration that had inspired him from the newly excavated villas at Herculaneum and the Villa Negroni in Rome. This style was used by the architect Karl Fredrich Schinkel in the 1820s for the royal palaces in Berlin and by his pupil Leo von Klenze, from 1825-36, for the decoration of the new wing of the Bavarian royal palace in Munich, and for the rebuilt wing of the Hermitage in St.Petersburg (from 1836). Drawings of the private sitting rooms and boudoirs of members of the Bavarian royal family, preserved in an album in the Schlossmuseum in Darmsdadt, show examples of the use of this style of decoration. It seems likely that this view was painted shortly after the room was completed since no extraneous pictures or ornaments as yet impair the perfect whole. The suite of seat furniture is upholstered in green with a delicate pattern to match the curtains and dramatically shaped and tasselled pelmet. The flowers in their tripod stands are an important element in the decorative scheme