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| Keywords: Charles Soulier, Grande Salle du Conseil d'Etat, 1871.jpg Soulier's photograph shows the charred remains of the once lavish audience hall of the Council of State in the Palais d'Orsay a building begun by Napoleon I completed in 1840 under King Louis-Philippe and burned by the Communards on May 23 1871 In the last years of the nineteenth century these ruins were replaced by a new railway station the Gare d'Orsay which in turn was transformed in the 1980s into the Musée d'Orsay the French national museum for art made between 1848 and 1914 1871-05 Albumen silver print from glass negative Image 19 x 24 9 cm 7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in <br>Mount 34 7 x 47 2 cm 13 11/16 x 18 9/16 in Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history credit line Gift of Paula and Robert Hershkowitz in memory of Sam Wagstaff 2009 289160 Inscription Printed on mount recto BC Photographié par CH SOULIER // PARIS INCENDIÉ // MAI 1871 // Publié 141 Boulevard Sébastopol à Paris ; inscribed in pencil verso C Grande salle du Conseil d'Etat accession number 2009 32 1 PD-100 Palais d'Orsay Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Destructions during the Paris Commune 1871 in Paris 1871 photographs Charles Soulier | ||||
