| Summary: | House of Polytechnicians – ancient Hotel of Nointel – currently serves as a prestigous reception venue in Paris. Although these decorations of the eighteenth century were quite transformed or pastiched in the nineteenth century, the building still has an authentic decor, with a ceiling decor of decorated monkeys painted by Antoine Watteau and Claude Audran III adorning a small room on the first floor of the main residence, located in the courtyard. A recent study led to a reconsideration of the ornamentation of the room as a whole. The attempt to reconstruct the layout of the wall panels made by Watteau and his confrontation with the existing ceiling allowed the identification of the room’s overall iconography: symbols of the Regiment de la Calotte, known especially to book lovers and historians, wich can be assumed to have belonged only to the world of publishing.
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