The Marly court at the Louvre in Paris Grand Louvre, Rue de Rivoli and quai...

The Marly court at the Louvre in Paris Grand Louvre, Rue de Rivoli and quai des Tuileries, Paris 75001. Architecture of Leoh Ming Pei in association with Michel Macary and Jean-Michel Wilmotte, 1983-2001. In 1981, Francois Mitterrand commissioned Ieoh Ming Pei to arrange the Grand Louvre. In particular, it was a matter of altering the spaces that Napoleon III had built for the ministries and which had been occupied by the Ministry of Finance at that time. This is the Marly yard of the Richelieu Wing. It houses the monumental French sculpture that adorned the park of the castle of Marly, with in the foreground the sculpture Horses escapappes retained by a storehouse by Guillaume 1er Coustou ©Collection Artedia/Pei Ieoh Ming Rice Peter/Artedia/Leemage Note: Publicity subject to authorization prealable