Mon plaisir (doll town)
Mon plaisir (French: my pleasure ) is a miniature city for dolls made by Princess Auguste Dorothea von Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (1666–1751), born Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. This baroque doll town comprises 82 individual scenes and is unique in this size. The collection is presented in the palace museum in the New Palace in Arnstadt in Thuringia .
It was made for the princess, wife of Anton Günther II of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (1653-1716) . The first scenes of this were probably created around 1700. This city, consisting of numerous dollhouses in specially made showcases, was never intended as a toy, but stands in the tradition of the baroque chambers of curiosities . The aim was to reproduce the reality of life in the corporate society of that time with the nobility , bourgeoisie and peasantry .
The princely residence is depicted in numerous rooms, with dolls in each room depicting courtly life: the princess with maid in the morning toilet , the princess in the nursery, the barber with the prince, an evening party at court, the Chamber music , the court kitchen, the palace garden, the art chamber and much more. The town also contains a court theater, a church, and scenes from monastic life . Numerous craft businesses and a market represent bourgeois life. The doll town is populated by over 400 dolls, which were probably made and clothed by hand by the princess's court .
The puppet complex has been owned by the Arnstadt Museum Foundation since 1932.
literature
- Christian August Vulpius : The strange doll cabinet at Monplaisir, within Arnstadt . In: Curiosities of the physical-literary-artistic-historical past and present , vol. 8, Weimar 1820, pp. 426–433 ( digitized version ).
- Matthias Klein, Carola Müller: The doll town in the castle museum in Arnstadt. ( The Blue Books ) 3rd edition, Langewiesche, Königstein i. Ts. 1999, ISBN 3-7845-1172-4 .
- Anette Cremer: Mon Plaisir. The doll town of Auguste Dorothea von Schwarzburg (1666–1751) . Böhlau, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22399-1 .
Web links
- The doll town "Mon plaisir" on the website of the cultural institutions of the city of Arnstadt
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 5 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 59 ″ E