Louvre Gallery nearly empty (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

1939
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Image: 4 7/8 × 6 7/8 in. (12.38 × 17.46 cm)
2014.352
Not on view
Newspaper clipping adhered to verso: "Art Takes Cover -- Corner of the Louvre's Grande Galerie, after/ pictures had been removed to safeguard them from an attack/ Louvre Museum Nearly Empty,/ Does Have Statue of Mars Left/ God of War Stands in Lonely Grandeur After War-/time Evacuation of "Mona Lisa" and Other/ Works of Art; Some Too Big to Move.."
Partial inscription in graphite on print verso: "Part of " and [scratched out inscription] "deep/ 3 3/8" " (technical notes).
Kathleen Boone Samuels Memorial Fund
©artist or artist’s estate

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