Henri Loyrette [SEP] date of birth
Henri Loyrette
Henri Loyrette (born 31 May 1952 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris) was the chairman of , a French organisation dedicated to corporate philanthropy., and the former director of the Louvre Museum (2001-2013). He became first curator and then director of the Musée d'Orsay in 1978 and 1994 respectively.
Career.
Loyrette's appointment to the directorship of the Louvre Museum was announced on 28 March 2001. According to Resnicow Shroeder Associates, previously Loyrette had "served as
initially dated the work to 1870, but later amended this to the earlier date, which he felt more probable. Due to the presence of a horse grenadier of the Imperial Guard at the back of the procession, Henri Loyrette argues that the scene is set before the end of the French Second Empire.
The work was most probably inspired by the funeral of the painter's friend Charles Baudelaire on 2 September 1867, at which Manet had assisted. The weather was stormy that day, the sky heavy and the cortège small