Titles of the prints: 1. PETITE GALERIE DU LOUVRE - Vue perspective et Elevation partielle de l'Etage inferieur 2. PETITE GALERIE DU LOUVRE - Plans et Details Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving - Original French antique print Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1864 Publisher: A. Morel et Cie, at 13, rue Bonaparte, Paris. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair) Dimensions: 10 x 13.5 inches, (25 x 34 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Note: 1. The photos show the overall views of the prints and details. 2. Green color border around the prints in the photos is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. Narrative: After the death of Henri II. his widow, Catherine de Médicis, installed herself in the Louvre; where however she cared little to continue the work of Henri II. , or even to complete it thoroughly. The work on the Escalier Henri II. was never finished. Indeed, instead of completing the court on the plans of Lescot, she began to build away from the south-west corner of the Louvre to the river, employing, according to one authority, a nameless Italian as architect, while another authority has it that one Pierre Cambiges built for her. This Petite Galerie, at first of only one story, more a portico of marble than a closed-in building, is now the ground floor of the Galerie d'Apollon. Whoever her architect was, he kept the building in harmony with Lescot’s work. Catherine built also the Palace of the Tuileries, and turned at right angles from her Petite Galerie along the river, having the ambitious idea of connecting the two. To her is due the Salles des Antiques, under the Salon Carré, and the ground floor of the Grande Galerie as far as the Pavillon de Lesdiquiéres. [Description from 1912] Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. eBay seller since 1998. Five-star service.