Interior of the Church of St Geneviève, Paris

Interior of the Church of St Geneviève, Paris from around 1830 by David Roberts depicts the neoclassical interior of the building that Jacques-Germain Soufflot designed as a church and the Revolution converted into the Panthéon, the secular mausoleum of French greatness. Roberts documented the interior before or after its periods of re-secularization, capturing the Corinthian colonnades, coffered barrel vaults, and solemn architectural gravity that marked Soufflot's masterwork. The classical interior presented different challenges from the Gothic subjects that dominated Roberts's work—broader spaces, cooler light, different proportional rhythms—which he met with the same precise perspective and atmospheric skill. His success with lithographic publications of his Middle Eastern and European travels made his architectural images familiar to audiences who had never visited the originals. The work is held at Victoria Gallery and Museum.

The classical interior is rendered with the same architectural precision Roberts brought to Gothic subjects, the Corinthian columns and coffered dome captured with characteristic skill.