Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca  Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca is an 1841 painting by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze, now in the Louvre in Paris. It was lent to the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon in 2014 for its exhibition "L'invention du Passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée 1802-1850.".