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Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont

A View of Paris from the Louvre, 1835

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Louise-Joséphine Sarazin de Belmont, French, printer

Title

A View of Paris from the Louvre

Year

1835

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

119.7 x 162.6 cm (47 1/8 x 64 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated LL:L.J.S. de B. Paris 1835

Place

France

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

1987.056

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Intermission

December 16, 2016 - July 2, 2017

From the Reserve I

April 9 - August 3, 1994

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

European Galleries

This luminous panorama of Paris and the river Seine was painted from a window in the Gallery of Apollo in the Louvre Palace. Looking east, it represents an idealized view of the city’s architecture, bridges, and riverside activity, bathing them in soft morning light.

Acclaimed by her peers, Sarazin de Belmont sought inspiration in native forests and heroic landscapes. Although landscape painting had long been perceived as lacking the cultural significance of portraits and narrative paintings, she promoted the early 19th-century concept that nature, as embodied in landscape, was the historic, generative foundation on which human achievement was built.

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