Food in the Louvre

Musée du Louvre publications

This book is an invitation to explore the details of great paintings by looking more closely at baskets of fruit, vegetables, cooked dishes and leftovers as portrayed in banquet and hunting scenes and still lifes. From the lavish preparations for feasts in luxurious interiors to peasant celebrations, with pauses for Chardin's Jar of Olives and Delacroix's lobsters, the author brings the expert eye of a leading chef to a varied selection of interrelated paintings. This is no mere descriptive list: here form and color take on a flesh and blood dimension in art endowed with all the savor of real life.
Close