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The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed from 1796 until 1801.
It is now mostly used by the Louvre Museum, which first opened there in 1793. While this area along the Seine had been inhabited for thousands of years, [1] the Louvre's history starts around 1190 with its first construction as the Louvre Castle defending the western front of the Wall of Philip II Augustus, the then new city-wall of Paris.
The project for a museum for the Louvre Palace began in the last quarter of the 18th century. The first paintings were deposited there from the Palace of Versailles, in 1785. [2] The museum opened during the French Revolution in 1793; it only included a few hundred works, that were exhibited in the Grande Galerie along the Seine.
Lastman also made a copy of the work. Later the work passed to J. H. Fr. de Paule de Rigaud, count of Vaudreuil (1740-1817). It was sold on 25 November 1784 in Paris as lot 25 and acquired at this sale by A. J. Paillet, art dealer in Paris, for Louis XVI. It was exhibited at the opening of the Louvre Museum in 1793. [1]
August 10 – The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum, with 537 paintings. Henry Fuseli begins to paints scenes from Paradise Lost . Aleksander Orłowski joins the Polish army; this leads to his participation in the Kościuszko Uprising .
1793 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1793rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 793rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1790s decade. As of the start of 1793, the ...
The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum. 23 August – French Revolution: The following universal conscription decree is enacted in France: "The young men shall go to battle and the married men shall forge arms. The women shall make tents and clothes and shall serve in the hospitals; children shall tear rags into lint.
Paris in the 18th century was the second-largest city in Europe, after London, with a population of about 600,000 people. The century saw the construction of Place Vendôme, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs-Élysées, the church of Les Invalides, and the Panthéon, and the founding of the Louvre Museum.