Frédéric Grasset (1848-1911), Interior Of The Louvre Museum With Sculpted Group, Oil, Paris

Frédéric Grasset (Cholet 1848- Paris 1911)
Interior of the Louvre Museum with Sculpted Group Jupiter striking down the Titans by Alessandro Algardi, resting on a table with a Porphyry top by Philippe Caffieri
Oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm (chassis)
73 x 64 cm (frame)
Signed lower right: F.Grasset
Good general condition - accidents to the frame

Frédéric Grasset exhibited in Paris from 1898. Listed as a landscape painter, he painted numerous views of Paris but made a specialty of views of interiors of Museums. Two works by him representing the interior of the Louvre are kept there: Showcase in the Galerie d'Apollon and View of the Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre. Our painting also represents a view of a room in the famous museum, perhaps produced at the same period as the two previously cited, at the very beginning of the 20th century. In the foreground of the room represented, the sculpted group dating from the 17th century by Alessandro Algardi representing Jupiter striking down the Titans is represented resting on a table with a porphyry top and base with figures of children, made by Philippe Caffieri in the 17th century. The sculpted group, still kept in the Louvre, still rests on this same table, in current room 601 of the Sully wing. At the back of the composition we can see a marble colonnade with Corinthian capitals.