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The Louvre's ancient art collections are to a significant extent the product of excavations, some of which the museum sponsored under various legal regimes over time, often as a companion to France's diplomacy and/or colonial enterprises. In the Rotonde d'Apollon, a carved marble panel lists a number of such campaigns, led by:
Upon the death of her mother in 1775, Marguerite Gérard, the youngest of the seven children, took up residence in the Louvre with her sister and her sister's husband Jean-Honoré Fragonard. [5] She lived in the Louvre with them for approximately thirty years, [6] allowing her to view and be inspired by great artworks of the past and present. [3]
North wing of Louvre facing main courtyard. The Louvre Palace (French: Palais du Louvre, [palɛ dy luvʁ]), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.
The Louvre Castle (French: Château du Louvre), also referred to as the Medieval Louvre (French: Louvre médiéval), [1] was a castle (French: château fort) begun by Philip II of France on the right bank of the Seine, to reinforce the city wall he had built around Paris.
The mosaic is normally housed in Paris at the Louvre (Ma 3443), although it has been known to go on tour. [1] In 2007 it was scheduled to feature in an itinerant exhibition of important pieces that the Louvre organised in the United States. [2] The mosaic depicts the Judgement of Paris, one in a series of incidents which led to the Trojan War.
Crypt of the Sphinx, Room 1 of the Department with the Great Sphinx of Tanis. The Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre (French: Département des Antiquités égyptiennes du Louvre) is a department of the Louvre that is responsible for artifacts from the Nile civilizations which date from 4,000 BC to the 4th century. [1]
The following is a very incomplete list of notable works in the collections of the Musée du Louvre in Paris. For a list of works based on 5,500 paintings catalogued in the Joconde database, see the Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum.
In 1850, Clovis Gauguin departed for Peru with his wife Aline and young children in hopes of continuing his journalistic career under the auspices of his wife's South American relations. [15] He died of a heart attack en route, and Aline arrived in Peru as a widow with the 18-month-old Paul and his 2 1 ⁄ 2 year-old sister, Marie.