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| Keywords: Gustave Le Gray, Pavillon Mollien, 1859.jpg Assessments 1 Standing opposite a newly built pavilion of the Louvre Gustave Le Gray made this photograph when the sun's position allowed him to best capture the details of the heavily ornamented facade from the fluted columns on the ground level to the figurative group on the nearest gable Paving stones lead the viewer's eye directly to the corner of the pavilion where the sunlit facade is further highlighted beside an area blanketed in shadow <br> Though the extensive art collections of the Louvre had first been opened to the public in 1793 during the French Revolution it was not until 1848 that the museum became the property of the state Le Gray's image shows the exuberance of the architecture undertaken shortly thereafter during the reign of Napoléon III when large sections of the building housed government offices 1859 Albumen print cm 36 7 47 9 Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history credit line 70191 Markings Recto photographer's wet stamp in red ink in lower right corner of print Gustave LeGray accession number 90 XM 72 PD-100 Historical photographs of the Louvre West facade of the Pavillon Mollien Louvre Pavillon Sully Louvre Cour Napoléon Louvre 1859 19th-century photographs of Paris 1859 in Paris Photographs in the Getty Museum Photographs by Gustave Le Gray Albumen prints 1859 photographs Featured pictures of the Louvre | ||||
