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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / September 2, 2026

A Nineteenth-Century Ceiling Is Still Sitting Underneath Chagall's at the Paris Opera

Jules-Eugène Lenepveu painted the dome of the Palais Garnier between 1869 and 1871. André Malraux had Chagall cover it with twenty-four canvases in 1964, and Lenepveu's descendant has now written to Macron proposing the two ceilings alternate every ten years.

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By Vittoria Benzine · Artnet News

Chagall's ceiling at the Palais Garnier
Chagall's ceiling at the Palais Garnier
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