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From 16th century Venice, the Louvre displays Titian's Le Concert Champetre, The Entombment, and The Crowning with Thorns. [21]: 378 [109] The La Caze Collection, a bequest to the Musée du Louvre in 1869 by Louis La Caze, was the largest contribution of a person in the history of the Louvre. La Caze gave 584 paintings of his personal ...
The Louvre Palace is situated on the right bank of the Seine, between the Quai François Mitterrand to its south, the Avenue du Général-Lemonnier to its west (thus named since 1957; formerly rue des Tuileries and Avenue Paul-Déroulède, converted into an underpass in 1987–1989 [5]), the Rue de Rivoli to its north, and the Place du Louvre ...
This is a list of the most-visited museums in France in 2023, as reported as of January 14, 2024. It is based on statistics from the French Ministry of Culture, the press service of the Île-de-France region. and "Le Figaro" (January 6, 2024), and the list of the Club-Innovation & Culture published on 6 January 2024.
In 2007, 50 of Paris's main tourist destinations were visited by more than 70 million people, with most of them being museums. [35] Ranked third on the list, the Louvre Museum with 8,260,000 visitors is the most visited location in the city that charges admission.
stonechat, flickr The Louvre in Paris topped the art museum attendance numbers for 2009, with 8.5 million
This list includes art museums, cultural museums, history museums, natural history museums, and science museums with an attendance of over 1,250,000 people in 2022, but does not include archaeological sites, historical monuments, or most palace museums.
The Mona Lisa Room at the Louvre. The Louvre is the world's largest and most famous museum, [12] [13] housing many works of art, including the Mona Lisa (La Joconde) and the Venus de Milo statue. [14] Known as the Great Louvre, it is the national museum and art gallery of France.
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