Les muses et les Heures [study for Paris Opéra]
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Les muses et les Heures du jour et de la nuit
The Muses and the Hours of Day and Night
Date
1872Description
Detail, figures of the Day as it dawns including the chariot of Helios; This is the final sketch for the ceiling of the auditorium (main theater) of the Paris Opera (Palais Garnier). It is still in place, but covered by the ceiling painting (a stretched canvas suspended under the original ceiling) done by Marc Chagall in 1964. In 1870, Lenepveu’s friend, Charles Garnier, commissioned the ceiling of the new Opéra from him. It depicts 63 figures on Mount Olympus. Painted in an elevated style and bright colors, it showed a compositional audacity reminiscent of Lanfranco and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 5/1/2014)
Type of Work
mural painting (visual work)Subject
allegory, deities, music, mythology (Classical), Sun Rising and setting, Nineteenth century, Second Empire
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