Project for the Transformation of the Grande Galerie du Louvre is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Hubert Robert, made in 1796.
[2] The museum opened during the French Revolution in 1793; it only included a few hundred works, that were exhibited in the Grande Galerie along the Seine.
The painter Hubert Robert was appointed keeper of the king's paintings in 1784 and was responsible for studying the layout of the future Grand Gallery, between 1784 and 1792, then between 1795 and 1802.
[3] For the Salon of 1796, he imagined a view of the Gallery presenting the arrangements he believed were necessary, in particular the opening of glass roofs allowing overhead lighting of the works.
The Gallery features overhead lighting and is segmented into bays by series of double Corinthian columns and transverse arches.