Get Small at the Louvre

Visit the Louvre in Paris and get small.

Like this.

Other visitors may also get small.

OK, a view from a height will often make people seem small, but Bill and I also found ourselves shrinking in the Louvre's French painting wing (Sully).

This room filled with paintings by Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674) acted as a pre-compression chamber. These young women are visibly shrinking.

We enter the final chamber, a room filled with paintings by Charles Le Brun (1619-1690).

Either the ceiling has gotten a lot higher and the paintings a lot bigger or we have become physically  smaller.

I look at Bill. I look at the room.

We've gotten smaller.

It's fun to be small.

 A backward glance. One new very small person in the Le Brun room.

We decompressed in the next room. Jean Restout's The Pentecost, 1732, is a nice touch here.

Also appropriate for re-entry -- Restout's Orpheus in the Underworld Reclaiming Eurydice, 1763.

Further on some 18th century landscapes helped coax us back to human size.