This splendid gallery replaced an old terrace, about 1840 (under Louis-Philippe) to facilitate circulation between the wing Louis XV and the large apartments. On the ceiling, and on the high skirtings, twenties and onepaintings were installed, carried out by Ambroise Dubois and his workshop about 1600; they represent divinities of mythology and children hunters. Initially realized with oil on plaster, coming from the vault of the gallery of Diane, deposited under Napoleon 1st, then transposed on fabrics, they were worth at piece-rates the name of Galerie des Fresques.

Louis-Philippe also made install woodworks of Renaissance style, the ceiling, and the skirtings in which are embedded 128 plates known under the name of Service Historique de Fontainebleau (1839 - 1844). These Sèvres china plates illustrate the history of the castle of Fontainebleau, or represent the forest, the castle at various times, other royal residences, as well as places visited by Louis-Philippe abroad during the Emigration: North America, England, Sicily.

The cabinet (or jewels-case) of Sèvres china illustrates the marriage of the duke of Orleans (wire elder of Louis-Philippe) with the princess Helene de Mecklembourg. This event took place with Fontainebleau in 1837.