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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.
The Catalog of paintings in the Louvre Museum lists the painters of the collection of the Louvre Museum as they are catalogued in the Joconde database. The collection contains roughly 5,500 paintings by 1,400 artists born before 1900, and over 500 named artists are French by birth.
The Louvre's extensive collections of Asian art were moved to the Guimet Museum in 1945. Nevertheless, the Louvre's first gallery of Islamic art opened in 1893. [60] Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt is seen with a plaster model of the Venus de Milo, [61] while visiting the Louvre with the curator Alfred Merlin on 7 October 1940.
The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.
Musée du Louvre, Paris: 96: Self-portrait with Beret and Gold Chain: 1633: Oil on panel: 70.4 x 54: Musée du Louvre, Paris: 97: Bust of Young Woman: 1633: Oil on panel: 65 x 48: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: 98: Man in Oriental Costume: c. 1633–1634: Oil on canvas: 98 x 74: National Gallery of Art, Washington: 99: Rembrandt and pupil(?). This work ...
Few would argue against the fact that the Renaissance period produced some of the most beautiful art the world has ever seen. Artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael would spend ...
Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Andromache Mourning Hector: 1783 oil on canvas 275 × 203 Louvre Museum, Paris The Vestal Virgin: 1783 oil on canvas private collection Portrait of Alphonse Leroy: 1783 oil on canvas 72 × 91 Fabre Museum, Montpellier Portrait of Charles-Pierre Pecoul: 1784 oil on canvas 91.5 × 72.5 Musée du Louvre, Paris
The Mona Lisa will also be given its own dedicated room as part of a major renovation of the world’s most famous art gallery. ... Half of the Louvre’s budget is financed by the French taxpayer ...