‘I was born in this palace’: Emotional Bonds in the Artistic Community of the Louvre (1750–1800)

Abstract

What is so difficult to understand is that most of the artists at that time, their wives, their daughters, and the rich amateurs who visited them in their studios, all well-bred people distinguished for their tastes and habits, used to live there without ever complaining about the horror that the disgusting darkness of the Louvre's inner parts should naturally have inspired in them.