Panels from the shutters formerly in the Chapel Room at Versailles ca. 1710 Robert de Cotte French Following his morning prayers and toilet, Louis would leave his chamber and proceed through the State Apartments to the Chapel Room, a salon on the second floor that gave access to the royal tribune in the chapel where the king attended Mass. The Chapel Room was paved with marble. Corinthian columns and sculptures in niches enlivened the walls, and allegorical stucco decoration representing the four parts of the world filled the corners of the vaulted ceiling. The three large windows were fitted with interior shutters carved in 1710 by the sculptor Jules Degoullons (ca. 1671-1737) and his partners, who worked for the Btiments du Roi, the department in charge of the royal palaces, after designs by architect Robert de Cotte (1656-1735). Sometime after they were removed from Versailles during the nineteenth century, the shutters were split through the middle into much thinner panels, presum