The Interior of a Customs House

The Interior of a Customs House is a 1775 genre painting by the French artist Nicolas Bernard Lépicié. It depicts the bustling courtyard of a custom house in Paris. It's grand scale may have been an attempt by Lépicié to blend genre scene with the more prestigious history painting.
The painting was displayed at the Salon of 1775 at the Louvre in Paris and was enthusiastically praised by the art critic Denis Diderot. Today it is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. Lépicié was also commissioned by the by the Controller-General of Finances Joseph Marie Terray to produce a companion work for the painting The Interior of a Market which he completed four years later and exhibited at the Salon of 1779.