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Technical details
192 pages, paperback, 25 x 28 cm, 170 color illustrations.
Publication date
2006Award(s)
Selected for the Mai du livre d'art 2006.
Period
18th-19th centuriesISBN French2-84975-081-6
French only
Co-publisher(s)
Fage éditions
This book sheds new light on the historical, artistic and political importance of the decoration of the Louvre commissioned during the Restoration. These “romantic” years, during which Ingres, Delacroix, Delaroche and Scheffer won renown, are an essential key to understanding how the palace was transformed into a museum between the grandeur of the Napoleon Museum and the splendor of the Second Empire.