Gallery of the Louvre

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Gallery of the Louvre

Peter John Brownlee (Editor)

Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention

Key to the People and Art in Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre

Author

Peter John Brownlee (Editor)

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

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Gallery of the Louvre

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PLATE 1
Samuel F. B. Morse (American, 1791–1872) Gallery of the Louvre, 1831–33 Oil on canvas, 73¾ × 108 in. (187.3 × 274.3 cm) Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1992.51

Key to the People and Art in Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre

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PLATE 2
Key to the People and Art in Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre

In an effort to educate his American audience, Samuel Morse published Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures, Thirty-seven in Number, from the Most Celebrated Masters, Copied into the “Gallery of the Louvre” (New York, 1833). (See Appendix.) The updated version of Morse’s key to the pictures presented here reflects current scholarship. Although Morse never identified the people represented in his painting, this key includes the possible identities of some of them. Exiting the gallery are a woman and little girl dressed in provincial costumes, suggesting the broad appeal of the Louvre and the educational benefits it afforded.

PEOPLE

A Samuel F. B. Morse

B Copyist, possibly a Miss Joreter, who took lessons from Morse at the Louvre, or Susan Walker Morse, daughter of Morse

C James Fenimore Cooper, author and friend of Morse

D Susan DeLancey Cooper, wife of Cooper

E Susan Fenimore Cooper, daughter of James and Susan DeLancey Cooper

F Richard West Habersham, artist and Morse’s roommate in Paris

G Horatio Greenough, artist and Morse’s roommate in Paris

H Copyist, possibly Morse’s recently deceased wife, Lucretia Pickering Walker, or a Miss Joreter

ART

1 Paolo Caliari, known as Veronese (1528–1588, Italian), Wedding Feast at Cana

2 Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (1618–1682, Spanish), Immaculate Conception

3 Jean Jouvenet (1644–1717, French), Descent from the Cross

4 Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto (1518–1594, Italian), Self-Portrait

5 Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665, French), Deluge (Winter)

6 Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (c. 1571–1610, Italian), Fortune Teller

7 Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian (1488/9–1576, Italian), Christ Crowned with Thorns

8 Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641, Flemish), Venus at the Forge of Vulcan

9 Claude Gelée, known as Claude Lorrain (c. 1602–1682, French), Disembarkation of Cleopatra at Tarsus

10 Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (1618–1682, Spanish), Holy Family

11 David Teniers II (1610–1690, Flemish), Knife Grinder

12 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669, Dutch), The Angel Leaving the Family of Tobias

13 Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665, French), Diogenes Casting Away His Cup

14 Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian (1488/9–1576, Italian), Supper at Emmaus

15 Cornelis Huysmans (1648–1727, Flemish), Landscape with Shepherds and Herd

16 Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641, Flemish), Portrait of a Lady and Her Daughter

17 Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian (1488/9–1576, Italian), Francis I

18 Bartolomé Estebán Murillo (1618–1682, Spanish), Beggar Boy

19 Paolo Caliari, known as Veronese (1528–1588, Italian), Christ Carrying the Cross

20 Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519, Italian), Mona Lisa

21 Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio (c. 1489–1534, Italian), Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with Saint Sebastian

22 Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640, Flemish), Lot and His Family Fleeing Sodom

23 Claude Gelée, known as Claude Lorrain (c. 1602–1682, French), Sunset at the Harbor

24 Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian (1488/9–1576, Italian), Entombment

25 Eustache Le Sueur and his studio (1616–1655, French), Christ Carrying the Cross

26 Salvator Rosa (1615–1673, Italian), Landscape with Soldiers and Hunters

27 Raffaello Santi, known as Raphael (1483–1520, Italian), Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, called La Belle Jardinière

28 Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641, Flemish), Portrait of a Man in Black (the artist Paul de Vos?)

29 Guido Reni (1575–1642, Italian), The Union of Design and Color

30 Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640, Flemish), Portrait of Suzanne Fourment

31 Simone Cantarini (1612–1648, Italian), Rest on the Flight into Egypt

32 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669, Dutch), Head of an Old Man

33 Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641, Flemish), Jesus with the Woman Taken in Adultery

34 Joseph Vernet (1714–1789, French), Marine View by Moonlight

35 Guido Reni (1575–1642, Italian), Deianeira Abducted by the Centaur Nessus

36 Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640, Flemish), Tomyris, Queen of the Scyths

37 Pierre Mignard (1612–1695, French), Madonna and Child

38 Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721, French), Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera

39 Borghese Vase (1st century BC, Greek)

40 Artemis with a Doe, called Diana of Versailles. Roman copy after Greek original attributed to Leochares (4th century BC, Greek)

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