The ‘historic axe’ or ‘the royal way’, designates the opening of Paris towards the West. The Louvre Palace, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs Elysées, the Arc de Triomphe and the Grand Arche de la Défense and perfectly aligned over 8 kilometers. Here Monet installed his easel many times with the company of Renoir, Van Gogh, Pisarro, Van Dongen and many others overs the centuries.
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Claude Monet, les Tuileries, study
Monet Tuileries
Claude Monet, Saint-Germain L’Auxerrois, Paris, 1867
Georges Jules Victor Clairin, fire at The Tuileries 1871
Giuseppe de Nittis the Carousel’s square and ruins of the Palace in 1882
Siebe Johannes TENECATE Tuileries aafter burning from the Carousel’s garden, 1883
Van Gogh, Carousel’s bridge and Louvre
Pissaro, Le Louvre rainy morning 1901
Renoir, Champs-Elysées, Paris Fair
Georges Stein, les champs elysees
Edgar Degas, visit at the Louvre
Kees Van Dongen Champs Elysees 1903
Posters of champs elysees
Jean Prevost aux Tuileries
Laurent Veyretout Paris, banks of the Seine Louvre
The Louvre Palace before the 19th century :
Le Louvre, in the XII centuries, anonym
Louvre in 1350, anonym
The Louvre in the XV centuries, prosperity under the Duke of Berry, anonym
the former Louvre, anonym
The Louvre, anonym
Around 1633, The Pont Neuf et The Louvre, French Academy in XVII, anonym
« Palais des Tuileries » before the French Revolution, anonym
The Louvre, anonym
The Louvre, anonym
columns of the Louvre, newly emerged, by Pierre Antoine de Machy, around 1793, Carnavalet Museeum
Tuileries after Lenotre’s embellishment, anonym
« Storming of Palais des Tuileries », Court of Carrousel, Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, in 1792
Concorde’s square, seen from the left bank, in 1801, anonym
Napoleon visiting the Louvre, Louis Charles Auguste COUDER
« Palais Royal », in 1791, Louis Nicolas Lespinasse
Louvre and Tuileries, in 1830, anonym
Mongolfier’s brothers rising in the Tuileries’Garden, anonym
Parade in the Tuileries, pictured by Eugene Lami, engraved by J B Allen, 1843
Invalide Giving a Petition to Napoleon during the Guard’s Parade in Front of the Tuileries Palace in Paris, Horace Vernet, 1838
National guard camping inside The Tuileries, Leon Auguste Asselineau
Louvre et Rivoli’s street, around 1860, anonym
Claude Monet, Tuileries, study
