Les Muses at the Musée du Louvre - Louis Béroud (1852-1930)

Louis Béroud 1852-1930

began his career as an apprentice decorator before joining the studio of the famous Léon Bonnat.
As early as 1873, he began exhibiting at the Salon, where his work
recognized and rewarded with medals over the years.

Considered one of the greatest artists of his time,
Béroud's works illustrate the cultural and technical evolution of his time.
His major achievements include representations of the Opéra, the Galerie des Machines at the 1889 Universal Exhibition,
and Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides.

His paintings, always imbued with grandeur and sumptuousness, bear witness to his sense of detail and staging, demonstrating a certain modernity.

But the place that the artist was particularly fond of, and that he depicted most often, remained the Louvre.

The artist spent much of his time exploring the rooms of the Louvre,
which he sometimes depicts with striking realism, sometimes with poetic emphasis, where muses seem to animate the paintings,
or with a touch of humor, imagining the works emerging from their frames.

One day,
came to the Louvre to paint the Mona Lisa , he was the first to discover ,
an empty panel and four nails where the Italian master's painting should have been displayed.
Béroud was the first to witness what would become the most famous theft in the history of art.

With Béroud,
we discover the hectic life of the Museum, the Salon carré, the Salle Rubens with its audience of copyists, onlookers and guardians.
The pictures the artist painted while at the Louvre also reveal a painter with a vivid imagination.