During the course of one hour late on Sunday evening, July 9, two inches (50mm) of rain fell on Paris during severe thunderstorms that swept across the region.
Several works in the collection of the Musée du Louvre are reported to have been damaged due to the effects of the sudden rainstorm:
- two (“Spring” and “Fall”) of the works that make up Nicolas Poussin’s “Four Seasons” in the Sept-Cheminées room
- “The Triumph of Mordecai” (1736) by Jean-François de Troy
- works, housed on the second floor, by 17th-century French artists Georges de La Tour and Eustache Le Sueur
Water flowed into the mezzanine of the Denon wing also. This affected the rooms housing “Arts of Islam” and “From the Mediterranean Orient to Roman Times.” These rooms have been closed pending hygrometric stabilization
Le musée du Louvre a été touché par les intempéries d’une violence inédite qui ont frappé la région parisienne dans la nuit du 9 au 10 juillet et le 10 juillet au matin.
Les infiltrations d’eau ont entraîné la fermeture de certains espaces et l’évacuation préventive d’œuvres du département des Peintures et du département des Antiquités égyptiennes.
See:
“Violent Storms Invade the Louvre, Damaging Art by Poussin and Other Holdings” | Naomi Rea, Artnet.com, 17 July 2017
“Louvre masterpieces damaged in storm” | The Connexion, 16 July 2017
“Informations suite aux intempéries des 9 et 10 juillet 2017” | Louvre, 13 July 2017
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