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ROBERT, Hubert: Design for the Grande Galerie in the Louvre

🖼 Design for the Grande Galerie in the Louvre, 1796
Oil on canvas
112 × 143 cm
Paris, France

Soaring classical columns frame a sunlit gallery stretching into atmospheric perspective, rendered with delicate watercolor washes. Robert's visionary design reimagined the Louvre's Grande Galerie during revolutionary upheaval, balancing neoclassical grandeur with intimate human scale.

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