Long before he became well-known as the inventor of Morse Code, Samuel Morse was a painter.  While he was convinced he was great painter, he could not make a living at the profession. One of his more unusual paintings was this one.  To prove how good he was, he painted a day scene in the most famous art musuem in the world, the Louvre in Paris. In a single room he included all of the most famous paintings of that museum. Then he reproduced each of the “greatest paintings of mankind” in his own painting.