Wallace Collections (Museum)

After I visit a museum for class, I am going to write a post about the different things I learned, as well as pictures of the different exhibits (if the museum allows photography). Its mainly moreso a learning tool for me, since this stuff might not be too exciting for you guys to read. It's up to you!

So here is the first museum I visited - The Wallace Collections. The collection of art, furniture, and other objects, are from five generations of the Marquess's of Hertford.
Sorry these pictures will be bad quality. They were taken with a point and shoot and with no flash because of museum rules.Perseus and Andromeda by Titian. Titian was known for the colors in his paintings, but this lost its colors throughout the years because it spent a good portion of its life hanging up in a bathroom. Andromeda is chained up, about to get attacked by a sea monster, but Perseus comes and saves the day and they go get married.

The Swing by Fragonard. I don't know much about art, but supposedly this is a very popular painting. A minister had wanted a painting of him looking up a girls skirt, who was being pushed on a swing by a bishop. Weird, I know. The painter did as he was told, but to make it less controversial, put an old man instead of a bishop pushing the girl on the swing. The girl kicking off the shoe, the cupid statue giving the "shhh!", the small white dog (barely visible) yapping away, and the man's outstretch hand all symbolize male arousal. It's a very flirtatious painting when you look at what's going on.This is a piece of Sevre porcelain, which is the finest porcelain in the world. It is Mary Adelade's ink stand. The middle piece is a bell to call her servants, one globe for ink, and the other for sand, to blot the paper.
Mrs. Robinson by Gainsborough. Mrs. Robinson is very sad and angry at the guy who is in her locket (in her hand), Prinny. Her and Prinny, a 17 year old Prince of Wales, had an affair, but it only lasted 9 months. His servants paid her 2,000 pounds (like $4 million today) to keep hush-hush about everything. Prinny then went on to have an affair with the 2nd Marquess's wife (one of the collectors who lived in this house).Finally we have this wardrobe that was made for King Louis XIV (I think that is 14...). It is worth around 8 million pounds, or $13 million. This wardrobe wasn't used for clothes though - it was a "Cabinet of Curiousities" meaning it housed collectibles. It's made of brass and sea turtle shell.