Excerpt from The Little Louvre: Or the Boys' and Girls' Galery of Pictures The great Louvre is a picture gallery in Paris, or rather it is an ancient palace containing a picture gallery, Which is renown ed throughout the world. Besides a great many smaller apart ments, it contains one hall about a quarter of a mile long, the walls of which, on both sides, are crowded with paintings all the way. There are no Windows in the sides of this hall, for Win dows would occupy the space that is required for the paintings. Provision is accordingly made for lighting the apartment from above. This picture gallery is visited every year by hundreds of thousands of persons from all parts of the world. Groups and parties of these visitors are continually Walking up and down the long hall, looking at the pictures, and at the artists, male and fe male, that are seated before them at their easels, making copies. It is from this great and world-renowned gallery that the small er and humbler collection of pictures herewith presented to the reader receives its name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.