Cour Carree, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France
Allegory of the Law with busts of Thucydides and Herodotus, and below, legislators of empires, (left-right), Moses holding the tablets of the law and Isis (Egyptian empire) and Numa Pompilius (Roman empire) and Manco Capac (Incan empire), by Jean-Guillaume Moitte, 1746-1810, 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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1639 1806 75001 Aile Allegorical Busts Capac Carree Cour Cuzco Empires Herodotus Inca Incan Isis Left-right Legislator Legislators Lemercier Lescot Louvre Manco Moses Numa Ordered Pediment Pompilius Tablets Thucydides
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