Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

After a competition held in 1823, Hippolyte Lebas built Notre-Dame-de-Lorette between 1823 and 1836 on the model of the Roman basilicas; its decoration, much of it painted in wax, took several decades more. Pierre-Claude Delorme painted the great cupola with the translation of the Holy House of Loreto in 1836, and François-Édouard Picot the Coronation of the Virgin on a gold ground in the half-dome of the apse. Jacques-Victor Orsel painted the chapel of the Litanies of the Virgin between 1836 and 1854. The photograph opening this section looks up into the apse.