The art of the Louvre, containing a brief history of the palace and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists (1905)
Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L.C. Page & company · leaf 36
husbands example, of continuing patiently a work whichat the best offered little to a woman always most attractedby the new. It is not surprising, therefore, that sheinterrupted in the very debut of her reign the projects ofthe dead king. Her first aim was to make the Louvrehabitable. The… … tnstor£ of tbe Xoiwre 13 of her great grief at her husbands death Catherine hadhad the palace torn down. This made it all the more nec-essary to hasten operations at the Louvre. The works incourse of building were stopped, the sculptures left un-finished, and all activity was concentrated upon the…
Musée du Louvre · Painting
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