James Madison's Montpelier 2018 House Restoration Montpelier_RestorationBooklet_PRESS | Page 4

S o u t h Pa s s a g e
2017 - January 2018
U
sing the 1844 “Oil Paintings at Montpellier” inventory as
well as multiple guest accounts, we recreated the Madisons’
passage gallery. To qualify for inclusion, a painting had to match
the subject of the painting listed on the inventory, be from the
artistic tradition of one of the countries John Payne Todd visited
in Europe, and be in the Old Master style. The Venetian carpet is
exactly reproduced from an extant sample from the period and
was installed based on tacking evidence. Nearly everything used to
furnish this room was purchased with Rubenstein funds.
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