Vue Prise du Louvre is an 1882 etching by French artist Maxime Lalanne. Lalanne was a lawyer whose skill in drawing turned him to art as a career. He was celebrated for his draftsmanship, and his works on paper, especially his etchings, are highly collected. He was a member of the Société des Aquafortistes Français, along with Felix Bracquemond and Edouard Manet.

The Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, the Conciergerie and the Seine swimming barges appear in Lalanne’s view of Paris from the Musee du Louvre. Our etching was published in London in 1885 in P.G. Hamerton’s Paris in Old and Present Times.