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The Public Viewing David's 'Coronation' at the Louvre is an 1810 oil painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts a crowd of spectators at the Louvre in Paris examining the painting The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David , which portrays the coronation of Napoleon and his first wife Josephine . [ 3 ]
The 100 most popular art museums in the world in 2022, divided by countries and continents. In 2023, total attendance in the most-visited art museums returned largely to the level of 2019, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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According to the 2005 exhibition on Girodet organized by Sylvain Bellenger, the painting can be interpreted as a political allegory. In September 1806, Girodet wrote about his painting for the Journal de Paris : "How many people, set upon the reefs of the world and in the midst of social tempests, entrust, like this family, their health and ...
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.
Eliezer and Rebecca, Louvre version Private collection version. Eliezer and Rebecca (in French Éliézer et Rébecca) or Eliezer Giving Abraham's Presents to Rebecca (Éliézer remet les présents d'Abraham à Rébecca) is an oil-on-canvas paintings by Nicolas Poussin, dating to c.1647–1649, commissioned by silk merchant and banker Jean Pointel and is now in the Louvre.
The part of his collection of Hellenistic and Roman gold jewellery conserved in the Musée du Louvre warranted an exhibition devoted to it in 2005–06. [ a ] He was an early collector of early Italian paintings, the so-called "primitives" of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, which were overlooked by his contemporaries.
The Louvre exhibits sculptures, objets d'art, paintings, drawings, and archaeological finds. At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 m 2 (782,910 sq ft), making it the largest museum in the world. It received 8.9 million visitors in 2023, 14 percent ...