Ceiling detail of Hercules Apotheosis of Hercules 1733-1736 by François Le Moyne, (1688-1737) in the the King's Grand Apartment, Palace of Versaille, Paris. The salon d'Hercule (also known as the Hercules Salon or the Hercules Drawing Room) is on the first floor of the Château de Versailles and connects the chapel and the North Wing of the château with grand appartement du roi. Beginning in 1724, work on the salon d'Hercule recommenced. Louis XV commissioned architect Jacques Gabriel, marbrier Claude-Félix Tarlé, and sculptors Jacques Verberckt and François-Antoine Vassé to complete the room
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