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Bourse de Commerce; Pinault Collection

Posted onNovember 5, 2022November 5, 20227 Comments

Paris has finally found a good use for its Bourse de Commerce, an impressive circular building that was originally used as a wheat market in the eighteenth century. (I imagine that this was where Balzac’s Père Goriot made his fortune as a wholesale grain dealer during the French Revolution.) François Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsMuseums, Museums in Paris

38,000 works of art

Posted onApril 13, 2022April 23, 202218 Comments

There are said to be 38,000 works of art on display in the Louvre in Paris, so it’s sort of like the internet or the Frankfurt Book Fair — you can’t possibly see them all, so you have to navigate to see what you want, or take potluck. And don’t Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsLouvre, Museums, Museums in Paris

Square du Vert Galant

Posted onDecember 3, 2021October 9, 202111 Comments

This little park at the western (downstream) tip of the Île de la Cité in Paris was named after the French King Henri IV (1553-1610), who was known as “Le Vert Galant” because of his many mistresses that he continued consorting with at a (relatively) advanced age. Actually he only Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissement, Île de la Cité

Carrousel du Louvre

Posted onOctober 10, 2021October 15, 20216 Comments

The Carrousel du Louvre is an underground shopping center directly adjoining the Louvre Museum in Paris. It was built from 1991 to 1993 as part of the second phase of the Grand Louvre project, and includes an entrance to the museum itself, which is open “at peak times” (according to Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsLouvre

The Louvre during the pandemic

Posted onAugust 19, 2021August 20, 202127 Comments

In the middle of May 2021, museums in France began to re-open following the third coronavirus lockdown. Soon, articles started appearing in the French press suggesting that this would be a good time for residents of Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France to visit popular museums such as the Louvre, since Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsLouvre, Museums, Museums in Paris

Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre

Posted onJuly 10, 2021July 18, 202122 Comments

Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) was the French scholar who founded the study of Egyptology by being the first to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. He published his translation and analysis of the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs in 1822 and 1824. Shortly thereafter he took on the task of establishing a new department of Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsLouvre, Museums, Museums in Paris

Ramses III and the Seated Scribe in the Louvre

Posted onJuly 4, 2021July 15, 202112 Comments

After twelve densely packed rooms of the thematic tour of ancient Egypt, a long staircase (or an elevator for people with restricted mobility) leads down to room 13, where a huge royal tomb is on display. It is the red granite tomb of pharaoh Ramses III, who ruled Egypt from Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsLouvre, Museums, Museums in Paris

Galerie Véro-Dodat

Posted onJune 22, 2021July 18, 202115 Comments

In the 1st arrondissement of Paris, equidistant from the Louvre, the Palais Royal and the Bourse de Commerce, there is an elegant nineteenth-century passage called Galerie Véro-Dodat, with wood-panelled shop fronts, black marble columns and paintings on the ceiling. The Galerie was named after its developers, who by coincidence were Read More …

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Ladies of the Louvre

Posted onJune 12, 2021June 22, 202110 Comments

Paintings by French neo-classical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) are on display both in the Louvre and in the Musée d’Orsay, across the river. My first photo (above) shows a painting by Ingres from the year 1862 called Le bain turc (The Turkish Bath). It is in the Louvre in room Read More …

Categories_1st arrondissementTagsLouvre, Museums, Museums in Paris

Queuing in the rain at the Louvre

Posted onJune 11, 2021June 14, 202114 Comments

In pre-Covid times, it was not uncommon to see hundreds of people queuing to get into the Louvre, the world’s largest museum. I took these photos on a rainy Sunday afternoon in 2013 from inside the museum, where I was spending the day with the Belgian art connoisseur Eddy Dijssel Read More …

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