Now touring from the Victoria & Albert Museum's exhibition Marie Antoinette Style is Salle de Bain, Marie-Antoinette, R.D.C. Cord Central, Versailles, 2006, by Robert Polidori.

Revealing a stark intimacy of what was once Marie Antoinette's bathroom, Polidori's use of natural light and stillness heightens a sense of suspended time, suggesting both the presence of its former occupant and the impossibility of returning to that past.

"Robert Polidori's haunting photograph of the queen's bathroom at Versailles captures a once-intimate space now laden with history. Located in the queen's private chambers on the ground floor, the room overlooks the palace's marble courtyard. Ironically, the queen had little opportunity to luxuriate in this space as the works were only completed in 1789, the year the French Revolution began."  - Marie Antoinette Style 

Learn more about the exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art here