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Département des Peintures (Louvre)
Department of Paintings
French Paintings
Italian Paintings
Dutch Paintings
Spanish Paintings
Major Origins of Acquisitions
Francois I
Louis XIV
Naploleon
Salle des Etats (Louvre)
Contains perhaps the Greatest number of Masterpieces than any room in the World
Including the great Venetians — Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto
(40 of these are labeled “Collection de Louis XIV)
-The Louvre (James Gardner 2020)
“State Room”
built to accommodate the major legislative sessions presided over by Napoleon III from 1859
Mona Lisa room
Italian painting
Venetian Renaissance
Denon Wing (South Wing of the Louvre)
1st Floor
Room 6
Mona Lisa
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo (Louvre)
Leonardo da Vinci
A Closer Look (Focus) English
A Closer Look (Focus) French
The Wedding Feast at Cana
Depicts the biblical story of the Marriage at Cana, at which Jesus converts water to wine (Louvre)
Paolo Veronese (the largest canvas at the Louvre)
“On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee” (John 2:1-12)
Huître (Oysters)
Rue LaPic and Montmartre is littered with seafood shops with their tables spilling out onto the sidewalk
Our Bad experience: is that we bought mussels for a seafood stew while staying in an apartment with a kitchen – and got so SICK. This occupied several days and is very memorable in a very messy-kind-of-way. You really want to avoid food poisoning while on vacation. (although tasting new and different things will always be a part of our travels)
Our Good experience: we walk over to Au Pied de Cochon after the early Christmas service at Notre Dame. The place is empty, but the Onion Soupe is good. We also ordered the tiers of Oysters, which was too much food, but a good memory
Our Next Experience: we buy a crate of Oysters to eat on our own with cocktail sauce, horseradish, lemon and hot sauce.
Why a landlocked city like Paris associates itself so closely to the Oyster is a mystery
Last year we celebrated Christmas morning at Au Pied de Cochon with Oysters and French Onion Soupe
We remember seeing street carts selling crates of oysters on New Years Eve in the 7e (arrondisement)
Many establishments offer extravagant seafood platters.
Julia Child: Fresh Food (National Public Radio)
Oysters on the Half Shell
The Oyster King and the Seagull Test The Splendid Table
The First Time I Ate an Oyster Alicia Kennedy (Hazlitt)
(one Christmas we bought mussels on the streets of Montmartre, made a delicious mussel stew in our apartment – and became DEATHLY sick)
Clotilde Dusoulier
Clotilde Dusoulier is a Paris touch-stone for us
(A Cookbook Author, Blogger and one of our favorite Parisians)
Oui, Oui! French Cooking Made Easy (National Public Radio)
Paris Markets Chocolate & Zucchinia blog written by Clotilde Dusoulier
Montmartre Cemetery
Three Cemeteries in Montmartre
-cemetery of Montmartre
-cemetery of St Vincent
-cemetery du Calvaire (open to the public once a year, on All Saints’ Day)
Montmartre Cemetery
20 Avenue Rachel, 75018 Paris, France
Notables:
Alphonsine Plessis (French courtesan and mistress to a number of prominent and wealthy men) La Traviatta
artist Edgar Degas
filmmaker François Truffaut
actress Jeanne Moreau
author Alexander Dumas
(although his ashes were reinterred at the Pantheon on the bicentenial of his birth 2002)
Carame (The Chef of Chefs)
Adolphe Sax (invented the Saxaphone)
Léon Foucault (invented the Foucault Pendulum which demonstrates how the earth rotates)
(a model of this pendulum is one of the best things about the Pantheon,
swinging from the center dome)
A Favorite Cemetery in a Favorite Arrondisement:
One Main Entrance where weatherproof maps are available
The graves are situated on several levels, there is a long stairway, but the cemetery is a manageable size
Populated by cats (on some days, it seems there are more cats than people)
Edgar Degas (1934-1917) French Impressionist
Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017) French actress
Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977) French film director
Dahlia (1907-1977) 18th Division
1st Floor (Sully Wing)
Étage 1
Rooms 600 to 633
Louvre Floor Plan (room descriptions)
Department of Paintings
Northern Schools
English Painting
Room 74
Salle des Sept-Cheminées
Le dauphin Charles-Orlant Jean Hey (le MAÎTRE DE MOULINS)
Grande Galerie (Louvre)
La Grande Galerie, aile Denon
Denon Wing (South Wing of the Louvre)
1st Floor
Room 12
(Room 710 712 716)
Italian paintings in Room 8 (WikiMedia Commons)
Quatre heures au Salon François Biard (1798 – 1882)
Four O’Clock at the Salon
Courtyards (Louvre)
Courtyards of the Palais du Louvre
(there are nine courtyards of the Louvre)
Sully Wing
Cour Carrée
Richileu Wing
Cour Marly
Cour Puget
Cour Khorsibad
Denon Wing
Cour du Sphinx https://www.google.com/#q=cour+du+sphinx
Cour Visconti https://www.google.com/#q=cour+visconti
Cour Lefuel
External (Outside) Central Courtyards
Cour Napoléon (Main Central Courtyard with Louvre’s Entrance at the Pyramid)
Cour Carrousel (located at the West end of the Louvre over the Carousel Underground Mall)
Stairs (Louvre)
escalier (staircase)
Escalier Daru
Victory of Samothrace Staircase
Where: Level 0 – Denon Wing.
Escalier Henri-II
Staircase leading to the Salle Henri II
Lefuel Staircase
The “Optical Illusion” Staircase
Where: Level 1 – Richelieu Wing.
https://www.360cities.net/image/escalier-lefuel-richelieu-2nd-floor-louvre-paris-2014
Escalier du Ministre
Escalier Colbert
Escalier Mollen
Prints and Drawings (Louvre)
Prints and Drawings
Due to their fragility, works on paper are not on permanent display in the museum.
Portrait en pied de la marquise de Pompadour
Maurice Quentin de La Tour
The Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour
A Closer Look (Focus) French
A Closer Look (Focus) English
Paris for the Holidays 