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Description: | Oil on canvas. The Government Art Collection’s painting by John Scarlett Davies, showing the Salon Carré of the Louvre with the Grand Gallery beyond, was commissioned by politician and connoisseur Lord Farnborough (1760-1838), who also commissioned Davis to paint interior views of the Vatican and the Escorial in Spain. The work shows a display from the permanent collection of the Louvre, including works by Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Rembrandt and Van Dyck, many of which were once in the collection of Charles I.
A composition showing almost exactly the same view was painted at around the same time by American artist Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872). Morse’s work shows a different hang of Old Master paintings and both paintings combine real and imagined elements. | Subjects: | genre gallery space bust gallery 19th century costume palette paintbrush museum easel hat child sculpture chair dress woman bonnet pillar archway painting man | Temporal: | 1831 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | John Scarlett Davis | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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