A New Look Samuel F B Morse's Gallery of the Louvre

Samuel F.B. Morse's iconic, newly conserved painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831–1833) is on loan from the Terra Foundation of American Art. Executed in Paris and New York, the painting is Morse's "gallery picture"—a genre first popularized in the seventeenth century—and this is the only major example in the history of American art. It depicts his own imaginative installation of masterworks from the Louvre's Salon Carré with copyists and instructors in the foreground. Morse—who also invented Morse… Show more code and the telegraph—intended the work to inspire and inform American audiences by emphasizing the importance of instruction and learning from masterpieces

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