# The Museum Stairway

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ISABEY, Jean-Baptist](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/isabey-jean-baptist-rb470495e6a5476>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Watercolour, 86 x 66 cm

## Commentary

When exhibited at the Salon of 1817, this impressively large-format watercolour received critical acclaim for the accuracy of its execution and the sensitive choice of colours. The picture offers a glimpse of the monumental stairway built in 1812, which led to the Apollo Rotunda and the Salon Carré of the Musée du Louvre. The stairway was demolished in 1855.

## Related artworks

- [Prince August of Prussia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/isabey-jean-baptist-rb470495e6a5476/prince-august-of-prussia-rccfd80aba82a4c>)
- [The Empress Josephine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/isabey-jean-baptist-rb470495e6a5476/the-empress-josephine-rba7a7d8ca02283>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)