The Great Gallery in the Louvre, 1791

Title

The Great Gallery in the Louvre

Draughtsman

• Constant Bourgeois

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• classicism

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Brush and pen and brown ink over pencil on laid paper

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• graphite?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• brush drawing
• pencil drawing
• graphite drawing?

Geographic Reference

• French

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• architecture study
• light study
• autonomous drawing?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert und datiert unten links (mit der Feder): C. Bourgeois 1791

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet (mit der Feder): Grand Gallerie Du Louvre avec lescallier pour monter Dans les Camber
Verso Marke des Kunsthändlers Guillaume-Jean Constantin, Paris (Lugt 3000); Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Institution

• Städel Museum

Administration

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Picture Copyright

© Städel Museum

Genre

• architecture

Main Motif

• Grande Galerie (Musée du Louvre)
• museum
• woman
• man
• couple
• group of people
• interior space
• Paris
• Louvre (Paris)

Persons Shown

• Grande Galerie (Musée du Louvre)

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Nicolas Poussin
• Hubert Robert

Primary

• 61F(LOUVRE) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (LOUVRE)
• 41A2111 gallery (spacious corridor)
• 47G3 making the overground structures (~ building activities)
• 48C113 architect offering design or model to patron
• 47G41 scaffold (~ building activities)

Secondary

• 47G543 wood, timber ~ building material