Mid-Morning Art Thread

Imaginary View Of The Grande Galerie In The Louvre
Hubert Robert

Posted by: CBD at 09:33 AM

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1 meta

Posted by: Otto Penn at July 06, 2026 09:35 AM (sJHOI)

2 a painting about paintings

Posted by: Otto Penn at July 06, 2026 09:35 AM (sJHOI)

3 Very well done. Would hang.

Posted by: Will Robinson at July 06, 2026 09:35 AM (4a6AT)

4 Interesting

Posted by: Skip at July 06, 2026 09:36 AM (sgkY8)

5 Hubert's imagination was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 06, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

6 Fire trap.

Posted by: Parisian Fire Marshall Bill at July 06, 2026 09:36 AM (6Ga6M)

7 What’s “imaginary” about it?

Posted by: Bulg at July 06, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

8 You'd think the skylight would brighten the place up a bit.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 06, 2026 09:37 AM (6v6cQ)

9 Imaginary View Of Old Greek Homos.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 06, 2026 09:37 AM (Kt19C)

10 2 a painting about paintings
Posted by: Otto Penn at July 06, 2026 09:35 AM
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What about us?

Posted by: Statues of nekkid people at July 06, 2026 09:37 AM (2Ez/1)

11 Awfully dark for a gallery with such a large skylight. But, hey, it's his imagination, not mine.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2026 09:37 AM (bFu5X)

12 Hubert Hubert

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 06, 2026 09:37 AM (RIvkX)

13 Butt and side boob at lower left so I guess it qualifies as art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2026 09:38 AM (ExV1e)

14 Since it's imaginary, would it have hurt to put in a few happy little bushes?

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at July 06, 2026 09:38 AM (0sNs1)

15 Artist almost had a date with the death. Per Wiki:
"Robert was arrested in October 1793, during the French Revolution.During the ten months of his detention at Sainte-Pélagie and Saint-Lazare he made many drawings, painted at least 53 canvases, and painted numerous vignettes of prison life on plates.He was freed one week after the fall of Robespierre.Robert narrowly escaped the guillotine when through error another prisoner with a similar name was guillotined in his place."

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2026 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

16 They're painting forgeries for display...the real stuff is hidden deep underground.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2026 09:39 AM (FZ29D)

17 Artist almost had a date with the death. Per Wiki:
"Robert was arrested in October 1793, during the French Revolution.During the ten months of his detention at Sainte-Pélagie and Saint-Lazare he made many drawings, painted at least 53 canvases, and painted numerous vignettes of prison life on plates.He was freed one week after the fall of Robespierre.Robert narrowly escaped the guillotine when through error another prisoner with a similar name was guillotined in his place."
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2026 09:38 AM

Vive la liberté!

Or something...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 06, 2026 09:40 AM (bFu5X)

18 Must have been a sale on nude statues.
Some of those paintings are huge, could not hang on my walls.

Posted by: Case at July 06, 2026 09:41 AM (IY9No)

19 Muslim dystopian France

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2026 09:42 AM (6/7Fs)

20 Hubert Robert... seems backwards.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2026 09:42 AM (jehhT)

21 "Robert was arrested in October 1793, during the French Revolution.During the ten months of his detention at Sainte-Pélagie and Saint-Lazare he made many drawings, painted at least 53 canvases, and painted numerous vignettes of prison life on plates. He was freed one week after the fall of Robespierre. Robert narrowly escaped the guillotine when through error another prisoner with a similar name was guillotined in his place."
Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2026 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)
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So he's going to the guillotine, but his jailers are considerate enough to supply him with art materials.

Maybe they figured once he's dead, his paintings would be worth a fortune...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2026 09:42 AM (FZ29D)

22 That must be the backroom!

I always wonder about all the paintings and other artifacts these museums own that have been tucked away in the basement for decades, unappreciated, unloved!

IIRC, a few years back, a young scientist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science was checking out an old mammoth's bones that had been in the basement since forever and made a breakthrough type observation/discovery.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 06, 2026 09:42 AM (X8xt3)

23 They're painting forgeries for display...the real stuff is hidden deep underground.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2026 09:39 AM (FZ29D)

The real stuff was stolen by that guy in that movie who had it copied and then replaced in the museum covered by watercolors which get rinsed off by the fire system and everyone decides that they won't try to arrest him because boys will be boys.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2026 09:42 AM (ExV1e)

24 Robert narrowly escaped the guillotine when through error another prisoner with a similar name was guillotined in his place."

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Wristbands, people. Wristbands.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 06, 2026 09:43 AM (6/7Fs)

25 I've seen flea markets arranged better.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 06, 2026 09:43 AM (MXaEW)

26 Is this painting inside the painting?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 06, 2026 09:43 AM (l3cgK)

27 Beats working in a coal mine oui?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 06, 2026 09:44 AM (2GVsD)

28 I've seen flea markets arranged better.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 06, 2026 09:43 AM (MXaEW)

Fleas are well known for being obsessed with organization.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2026 09:44 AM (ExV1e)

29 Artist almost had a date with the death. Per Wiki:
"Robert was arrested in October 1793, during the French Revolution.During the ten months of his detention at Sainte-Pélagie and Saint-Lazare he made many drawings, painted at least 53 canvases, and painted numerous vignettes of prison life on plates.He was freed one week after the fall of Robespierre.Robert narrowly escaped the guillotine when through error another prisoner with a similar name was guillotined in his place."
Posted by: Tuna

Close enough. Bastard did something to lose his head.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 06, 2026 09:44 AM (1IhIV)

30 I think maybe CBD is still basking in some patriotic Independence Day afterglow. The large painting leaning against the wall appears to be some architecture akin to TJ's memorial and up above it on the wall there's a tall phallic symbol not unlike George's monument.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 06, 2026 09:44 AM (2Ez/1)

31 The attic of misfit art.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2026 09:46 AM (jehhT)

32 During the ten months of his detention at Sainte-Pélagie and Saint-Lazare he made many drawings, painted at least 53 canvases, and painted numerous vignettes of prison life on plates

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Now available in rare collector's editions rimmed in genuine 14 kt gold leaf!

Posted by: The Bradford Exchange at July 06, 2026 09:47 AM (6/7Fs)

33 Nice portrait of the artist by Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun on his Wikipedia page.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2026 09:47 AM (lJ0H4)

34 Guy named backwards.

Posted by: Eromero at July 06, 2026 09:49 AM (LHPAg)

35 I hope CBD got to see the TJ statue in Paris, as well as the former Texas Embassy there.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 06, 2026 09:49 AM (Iwx/a)

36 ...numerous vignettes of prison life...

Dear NY Metropolitan Museum of Art:
This one time, when I was on kitchen duty...

Posted by: Robert Hubert at July 06, 2026 09:50 AM (2Ez/1)

37 Very cool art today.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 06, 2026 09:50 AM (NpAcC)

38 Guy named backwards.
Posted by: Eromero

Yug?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 06, 2026 09:50 AM (MXaEW)

39 Very cool art today.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 06, 2026 09:50 AM (NpAcC)

No AC. Probably hot and stuffy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 06, 2026 09:50 AM (ExV1e)

40 I like this view better in The Edge of Tomorrow...which was one of Cruise's best movies

Posted by: 18-1 at July 06, 2026 09:53 AM (sKqQm)

41 He was freed one week after the fall of Robespierre

That guy's death was pretty terrible....and he deserved every moment of it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 06, 2026 09:54 AM (sKqQm)

42 pronounced Who Bear Rob Bear. The three bears must have been wondering the same.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 06, 2026 09:57 AM (gKWVE)

43 Looks a little cluttered. I can help.

Posted by: Marie Kondo at July 06, 2026 09:58 AM (1z8ji)

44 Marie Kondo is one of the few influencer types that I believe is on to something.

Having a bunch of crap that just gets in the way in your house is not going to make you happier...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 06, 2026 09:59 AM (sKqQm)

45 This is a delightful painting. You can get lost in the atmosphere and details. Robert was known as a painter of classic ruins and incorporated that theme into this scene of the newly opened Louvre. (Don't know if that shows a sense of humor or just played to his audience.) I wonder if the Romantic school of art reflects the literary Romantic period of Coleridge and Wordsworth and led to the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

BTW, Robert did a lot of pen and ink, chalk, and watercolor washes. They are remarkable.

Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2026 09:59 AM (yTvNw)

46 Kinda dim. I get not subjecting art to harsh lighting, but could we at least make it bright enough to see?

Posted by: Nightblind at July 06, 2026 10:01 AM (sUTO1)

47 Very interesting painting.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 06, 2026 10:03 AM (Bw1/o)

48 @39 No AC. Probably hot and stuffy.
French skylight glazing. Hard to believe anything below survives.

@44 Having a bunch of crap that just gets in the way in your house is not going to make you happier...
Two schools of thought on that, one well represented here by those just moving into care facilities. "Down sizing their lives."

My best old boss used to say, "If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk the sign of?"

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 06, 2026 10:04 AM (zdLoL)

49 Kinda dim. I get not subjecting art to harsh lighting, but could we at least make it bright enough to see?
Posted by: Nightblind at July 06, 2026 10:01 AM (sUTO1)

**side eyes**

Posted by: Modern Movies at July 06, 2026 10:04 AM (6Ga6M)

50
An ambitious young artist named Hoover
Ws a bit of a shaker and a mover
He said rom the start
That he'd like to make art
That was good enough to hang in the Loover

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:05 AM (I0N4X)

51 So he painted with vigor and verve
To get the reward he'd deserve
His art was so fine
that by the end of the line
It was good enough to hang in the Lurve

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:06 AM (I0N4X)

52 His artwork was hard to forget
His success was a guaranteed bet
"The Loove," he announced
"Is too hard to pronounce
So instead it shall hang in the Met!"

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:06 AM (I0N4X)

53 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. This is nothing. The artist should see my garage. Hundreds of sacred and valuable things that have been stored over the years.
Well. Everything except a 11 mm socket.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2026 10:06 AM (2WIwB)

54 A triple from muldoon.

Posted by: Tuna at July 06, 2026 10:07 AM (lJ0H4)

55 A muldoon hat trick. That's a thing o' beauty, Horde.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 06, 2026 10:08 AM (OUMaO)

56 CBD,
Thanks for bringing this artist to my attention. Looking at his artwork on the Wiki page made me think of the Romantic era poetry (same period) I enjoy so much.

Posted by: JTB at July 06, 2026 10:09 AM (yTvNw)

57 Huh. So THAT's where they keep the 'Good Stuff' … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at July 06, 2026 10:09 AM (ayRl+)

58 A muldoon hat trick. That's a thing o' beauty, Horde.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 06, 2026 10:08 AM (OUMaO)

It is indeed!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2026 10:10 AM (1z8ji)

59 A muldoon hat trick. That's a thing o' beauty, Horde.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 06, 2026 10:08 AM (OUMaO)

Concur!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2026 10:11 AM (2WIwB)

60 I hope CBD got to see the TJ statue in Paris

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 06, 2026 09:49 AM (Iwx/a)

Yup. It's on the left bank side of a bridge we took all of the time!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...DSA at July 06, 2026 10:11 AM (l4RKn)

61 Muldoon hits a triple! We're not worthy!

Posted by: Limerick Lover at July 06, 2026 10:16 AM (2Ez/1)

62 A muldoon hat trick. That's a thing o' beauty, Horde.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez: Fiat Justicia, Ruat Caelum at July 06, 2026 10:08 AM (OUMaO)

Duly ratified. Unanimously, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at a remote location at July 06, 2026 10:16 AM (6Ga6M)

63 Where the heck is everyone this morning?

Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 06, 2026 10:17 AM (W2Pud)

64 We're sweeping up all the fireworks debris.

Posted by: Everyone at July 06, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

65 63 Where the heck is everyone this morning?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Looting ze colonies for more museum materiel, mon cherie.

Posted by: les Francaises at July 06, 2026 10:18 AM (gKWVE)

66 Dangnabbit! I think I strained an oblique trying that move!

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:19 AM (I0N4X)

67 Where the heck is everyone this morning?
Posted by: nurse ratched. at July 06, 2026 10:17 AM (W2Pud)

Stuck on the floor practicing the Viking Row.

Posted by: Count de Monet at a remote location at July 06, 2026 10:20 AM (6Ga6M)

68 Looting ze colonies for more museum materiel, mon cherie.
Posted by: les Francaises at July 06, 2026 10:18 AM

Is it *really* a French impersonation if "Allahu Ackbar" isn't involved?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 06, 2026 10:22 AM (2ocoG)

69 66 Dangnabbit! I think I strained an oblique trying that move!
Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:19 AM
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The Loove move.
I see that a lot.

Posted by: Muldoon's chiropractor at July 06, 2026 10:23 AM (2Ez/1)

70 Missed opportunity.

Correction:

I strained an oblique trying that manouvre!!

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:23 AM (I0N4X)

71 I always wonder about all the paintings and other artifacts these museums own that have been tucked away in the basement for decades, unappreciated, unloved!

From what I've seen it is 90% broken pots. No wonder they are losing dinosaur bones in there!

Posted by: frammish at July 06, 2026 10:25 AM (rcENI)

72
Imaginary: as in it's an image of images. Oh so clever with the naming of this!

It's as dark as a tomb. Would not hang.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at July 06, 2026 10:25 AM (s9VOe)

73 IIRC back in the 70's the Smithsonian (all of the museums) would take a number of high schoolers who applied as interns to work in their various storage facilities. Mostly cataloging the inventory. I applied, but I guess they had an overwhelming number of volunteers because I wasn't chosen. Or something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 06, 2026 10:29 AM (jehhT)

74
Somewhere in a back room , Sigourney Weaver is restoring a painting of Count Vigo the Carpathian.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at July 06, 2026 10:29 AM (s9VOe)

75 If you gaze too long at the Louvre, sometimes the Louvre gazes back at you.

/stuff Nietzsche might have said if he were an art critic

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:29 AM (I0N4X)

76 Like it except that it's dark. I too don't understand that long period of style where everything is painted in shadow.

Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2026 10:30 AM (/WQyy)

77 The Louvre is dead.

/more stuff Nietzsche might have said if he were an art critic

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:30 AM (I0N4X)

78 You're a dick!

/stuff Spicoli might have told Nietzsche if Nietzsche were an art critic

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:31 AM (I0N4X)

79 They put an IM Pei monstrosity in front of the Louvre. That was a troll move imo.

Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2026 10:32 AM (/WQyy)

80 We had curtains but then switched to Louvre blinds for the windows.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2026 10:32 AM (2WIwB)

81
Looting ze colonies for more museum materiel, mon cherie.
Posted by: les Francaises

We shoot ze cannonballs at ze nose of Ze Sphinx and sometimes we even heet it! And zhen we go back to practicing how to surrender!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at July 06, 2026 10:32 AM (s9VOe)

82 What's so funny about peace, Louvre, and understanding?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 06, 2026 10:33 AM (ndZc7)

83 I always wonder about all the paintings and other artifacts these museums own that have been tucked away in the basement for decades, unappreciated, unloved!
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I think a lot of those may be of poor quality and perhaps overly delicate. Not always suitable for display.

Many of those artifacts are available to researchers with the proper credentials, however, and are often used in various research projects for publication.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2026 10:34 AM (FZ29D)

84 We're sweeping up all the fireworks debris.

Posted by: Everyone at July 06, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

I'm letting the earth reclaim it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 06, 2026 10:35 AM (S41Gd)

85
"I don't care whether they say 'leever' or 'loover', said J. Edgar Hoover. "They're Commies. Arrest 'em all!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at July 06, 2026 10:35 AM (s9VOe)

86 I do like you can take virtual tours of most museums today.

Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2026 10:35 AM (/WQyy)

87 80 We had curtains but then switched to Louvre blinds for the windows.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 06, 2026 10:32 AM
+++

We've got some ideas you may want to consider.

Posted by: The Venetians at July 06, 2026 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)

88 This is all about me, isn’t it?
— Zombie Lou Hoover

Posted by: Bulg at July 06, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

89 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 06, 2026 10:34 AM (FZ29D)

And some museums are just Lefty and hate the artist. See Norman Rockwell.

Posted by: polynikes at July 06, 2026 10:37 AM (/WQyy)

90 Gene Winfield punched a lot of louvers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 06, 2026 10:37 AM (1z8ji)

91 J. Edgar Louvre, Museum Detective.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and His All White Jury! at July 06, 2026 10:37 AM (ndZc7)

92
"Blinded by the Venetians" never got the airplay that it deserved. A masterpiece, it was!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at July 06, 2026 10:37 AM (s9VOe)

93 This artist has an interesting oeuvre.

(It had to be said!)

Posted by: muldoon at July 06, 2026 10:39 AM (I0N4X)

94 74
Somewhere in a back room , Sigourney Weaver is restoring a painting of Count Vigo the Carpathian.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at July 06, 2026 10:29 AM (s9VOe)

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Peter MacNichol was a hoot in that movie.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 06, 2026 10:39 AM (PiwSw)

95
Give me a Louvre long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

-- Stuff Aristotle May Have Said, v2.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) - Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at July 06, 2026 10:40 AM (s9VOe)

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