Cour Carree, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France

Victory and Abundance above, with below, Hercules and the river Danube (left) and Minerva and the river Nile (right), by Philippe-Laurent Roland, 1746-1816, on the Aile Lemercier or Lemercier Wing, built 1639 by Jacques Lemercier, 1585-1654, and decorated later from 1806 as ordered by Napoleon I, in the Renaissance style of the Lescot Wing, in the Cour Carree, at the Palais du Louvre, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Victory and Abundance above, with below, Hercules and the river Danube (left) and Minerva and the river Nile (right), by Philippe-Laurent Roland, 1746-1816, on the Aile Lemercier or Lemercier Wing, built 1639 by Jacques Lemercier, 1585-1654, and decorated later from 1806 as ordered by Napoleon I, in the Renaissance style of the Lescot Wing, in the Cour Carree, at the Palais du Louvre, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen