Pavillon du Roi

The Pavillon du Roi (French pronunciation: [pavijɔ̃ dy ʁwa]) was a tower-like structure built in the mid-16th century at the southern end of the Lescot Wing of the Louvre Palace.

A small spiral staircase, the petit degré du Roi, connects to the upper floors;[3] it still exists but is not accessible to the public.

[1] On the ground floor, Fontaine created a large room, now centered on the Venus de Milo, and a smaller transitional space opening on the Salle des Caryatides, known as the Corridor de Pan; like the adjacent southern wing, Fontaine decorated them in a streamlined neoclassical style.

[4]: 72  Fontaine then merged all the pavilion's former first-floor and second-floor spaces, including the never-finished 1668 extension to the south, into a single large high-ceilinged and skylit room, which became known as the salle des sept-cheminées.

That room only received a permanent decoration in 1849-1851 under Fontaine's successor Félix Duban, with stucco sculptures by Francisque Joseph Duret whose delicate colors were revealed after cleaning in 2020–2021.