Grande Salle du Conseil d'Etat
Soulier's photograph shows the charred remains of the once lavish audience hall of the Council of State in the Palais d'Orsay, a building begun by Napoleon I, completed in 1840 under King Louis-Philippe, and burned by the Communards on May 23, 1871. In the last years of the nineteenth century, these ruins were replaced by a new railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, which, in turn, was transformed in the 1980s into the Musée d'Orsay, the French national museum for art made between 1848 and 1914.
Artwork Details
- Title: Grande Salle du Conseil d'Etat
- Artist: Charles Soulier (French, 1840–1875)
- Date: May 1871
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: Image: 19 x 24.9 cm (7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.)
Mount: 34.7 x 47.2 cm (13 11/16 x 18 9/16 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of Paula and Robert Hershkowitz, in memory of Sam Wagstaff, 2009
- Object Number: 2009.32.1
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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