Il nudo maschile nella statuaria: Il Genio dell'Arte -- pediment above the "Guichets du Louvre", façade facing the Seine, Paris, with the hammered copper group, "The Genius of Art" (1877) by Antonin Mercié.

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English: The Genius of Arts by Antonin Mercié (French, 1845–1916). Hammered copper, 1877. From the guichet on the Louvre’s façade, facing the river Seine, Paris.

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The neobaroque pediment above the "Guichets du Louvre" in Paris, with the hammered copper group "the Genius of Arts" (1877) by Antonin Mercié, with the dedication and the CoA of Napoléon III, emperor of the French.