BOOKS: Cats & Dogs in the Louvre
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2008:
Cats in the Louvre
by Frederic Vitoux &
Elisabeth Foucart-Walter
Dogs in the Louvre
by Francois Nourissier &
Elisabeth Foucart-Walter
Flammarion (c/o Rizzoli New York, 300 Park
Avenue South, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10010),
2008.
Each 80 pages, hardcover, illustrated; $19.95.
Elisabeth Foucart-Walter, chief curator
of the painting department at the Louvre art
museum in Paris, has teamed with Académie
française member Frédéric Vitoux and Académie
Goncourt president François Nourissier to produce
Cats in the Louvre and Dogs in the Louvre. The
substance of these twin volumes emerges from
Foucart-Walter’s eye for the animals in the
corners, backgrounds, and occasionally the
foregrounds of some of the Louvre’s most famous
works.