Updated 18 February 2026.
The Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield.
Louis Francois Roubiliac.
Height 48.2 cms.
Circa 1745.
In the Louvre, Paris.
Purchased July 2010.
An open letter ref. the blank spaces below where I had originally posted the images of the bronze bust of Chesterfield!
Dear Louvre
For some reason the powers that be at the Museum have decided that old links to photographs of the Museums holdings no longer work.
This is probably a vain and perhaps stupid attempt to withhold visual information so that no one might profit financialy from it.
We live in a world where digital technology can easily get around this sort of selfish and benighted behaviour.
I use software called Fastone (thank you Faststone) which allows me to easily crop and save as screen shots any image I wish to keep - there is a slight loss of resolution. but this can be remedied by sharpening in Adobe Photoshop.
Please stop this ridiculous behaviour and take a leaf from the Rijksmuseum website where they take an infiniterly more enlightened view on the subject of using their images.
The image below added 18 February 2026.
Courtesy Louvre website -
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