Emperor Franz Joseph’s billiards room at Schönbrunn, chromolithograph after a watercolour by Franz Heinrich, c. 1855/1860

Emperor Franz Joseph’s billiards room at Schönbrunn, chromolithograph after a watercolour by Franz Heinrich, c. 1855/1860

The furnishings of this room consists of a mixture of objects from various epochs: the billiard table dates from the time of Franz Joseph’s grandfather, Emperor Franz II (I), while the chairs are mostly in the Josephine style of the 1770s-1780s and the paintings from the reign of Maria Theresa.