Large Salon of Empress Elisabeth

Bergl Room

Small Salon of Empress Elisabeth

Large Salon of Empress Elisabeth

This room was used by Elisabeth as a reception room. When the empress was resident at the Hofburg, the imperial couple occasionally took breakfast together in this room.

The large Salon of Empress Elisabeth

The paintings on its walls evoke the empress’s admiration for all things Greek and for the Mediterranean landscape in general. She travelled extensively in the region and was deeply interested in its history, mythology and culture.

The empress’s Large Salon contains a marble figure executed by Antonio Canova, a neoclassical sculptor who enjoyed great acclaim during the Napoleonic era, depicting Napoleon’s sister Elisa Bonaparte in the shape of the Greek muse Polyhymnia.

Elisa Bonaparte had commissioned Canova to make a statue of her but after her brother’s fall no longer had the funds to pay for the sculpture, which had been completed in the meantime. Canova promptly altered the portrait-like features to represent an idealized muse.

„Das Kaiserpaar beim gemeinsamen Frühstück“. Illustration aus „Viribus unitis“ nach einer Zeichnung von Wilhelm Zasche, 1898

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Sascha Rieger

Großer Salon im Appartement Kaiserin Elisabeths

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Alexander Eugen Koller

Sisi Museum Großer Salon der Kaiserin Elisabeth

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Severin Wurnig

Statue der Polyhymnia im Großen Salon des Appartements der Kaiserin Elisabeth

Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H. / Sascha Rieger