Original: Samuel F.B.Morse fit an astonishing number of the Louvre's masterpieces into his painting of the Salon Carre the works are actually much larger thean shown here and hang throughout the museum.The painter himself is in the Foreground the writer James Fenimore cooper with his wife Susan Delancey Cooper and their daughter are shown around the easel in the left corner of the room(1832 Terra Museum of aArt,Chicago,Illinois.Photo courtesy the Terra Museum.)
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