A setback, but not the end of things.

Bouquet of White Chrysanthemums, 1869, Henri Fantin-Latour

View over Town at Sunset: a Cemetery in the Foreground, 1832, William Turner

Route from Louveciennes, Alfred Sisley

Parrying Dagger, Arms and Armor

Medium: Steel, gold, brass, wood

Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Viola d'Amore by Jean-Nicolas Lambert, Musical Instruments

Medium: Wood

Purchase, Roth Family Gift, in memory of Norman H. Roth, 1986 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Gladiolas and Roses, 1881, Henri Fantin-Latour

      The Grand French Connection ( Galerie d'Apollon ) Rooms Of Power

The Galerie d'Apollon is a part of the Louvre, famous for its high vaulted ceilings with painted decorations.

The room was originally called the ‘Petite Galerie’ of the Louvre and was decorated by the artists of the Second School of Fontainebleau, most notably Toussaint Dubreuil, Jacob Bunel and his wife Marguerite Bahuche according to designs by Martin Fréminet, for Henri IV of France.