'Magdalena Bay' by François-Auguste Biard, 1840
If I had to pick a lesser known painting to see in the Louvre then it would be this one. I’d never heard of Biard before and there is a surprising dearth of information about him on the web.  It first caught my eye as a superb dramatic skyscape, a little reminiscent of a Caspar David Friedrich.


 
But one expects to see superbly executed landscapes at every turn in the Louvre. So why pick this one? The answer is it's far more than just a pretty p...
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