The author beside the gigantic painting Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau (Antoine-Jean Gros)
Like the Daru Room (Salle Daru), the well-lit and spacious Mollien Room (Salle Mollien), named after Treasury Minister François-Nicolas Mollien (1758-1850), was created and decorated in 1863 (when the Louvre collection officially became Musee Napoleon III) for the imperial museum, as conveyed by its wine red and gold décor (to form an appropriate background for the French paintings).
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Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple), painted by Eugène Delacroix in the autumn of 1830, commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman personifying the concept and the goddess of Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen, holding the the tricolor flag of the French Revolution (France’s national flag) in one hand and brandishing a bayoneted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty, known as Marianne, is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic.
The Death of Sardanapal (Eugene Delacroix)
It houses large 19th century, large scale French Neo-Classical and Romantic paintings such as Theodore Gericault’s monumental “The Raft of the Medusa” (between 1818 and 1819, his only history painting) and Eugene Delacroix’s generation-defining “Liberty Leading the People” (1830) and “The Death of Sardanapalus.”
The Massacre at Chios (Eugene Delacroix)
Joachim Murat (Antoine-Jean Gros)
NOTE:
On January 29, 2019, Gros’s ultimate masterpiece with a mysterious origin, David Playing the Harp for King Saul, acquired at the Bergé auction by the Department of Paintings with the support of the Société des Amis du Louvre, was hung in the Salle Mollien.
The Souliot Women (Ary Scheffer)
The Women of Algiers (Eugene Delacroix)
Salle Mollien: Room 700, First Floor, Denon Wing, Louvre, Paris, France. Tel: +33 1 40 20 50 50. Open daily, except Tuesdays and holidays, 9 AM- 6 PM (until 10 PM on Wednesday and Friday evenings).
The Louvre has three entrances: the main entrance at the pyramid, an entrance from the Carrousel du Louvre underground shopping mall, and an entrance at the Porte des Lions (near the western end of the Denon wing).
Admission is free, from October to March, on the first Sunday of every month. Still and video photography is permitted for private, noncommercial use only in the galleries housing the permanent collection. The use of flash or other means of artificial lighting is prohibited. Photography and filming are not permitted in the temporary exhibition galleries.
How To Get There: the Louvre can be reached via Metro lines 1 and 7, station Palais Royal – Musée du Louvre Métro or the Louvre-Rivoli stations. By bus, take No. 21, 24, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72, 81, 95 as well as the touristic Paris l’Open Tour. By car, there is an underground parking reachable by Avenue du Général Lemonier, every day from 7 AM – 11 PM.