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The Women of Algiers: Painting Eugène Delacroix: Death of Sardanapalus: Painting Eugène Delacroix: A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother: Painting Eugène Delacroix: Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa: Painting Antoine-Jean Gros: The Charging Chasseur: Painting Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa: Painting Théodore ...
For painters with more than two works in the collection, or for paintings by unnamed and unknown artists, see the Louvre website. Most artists in the collection are represented with only one or two works, but some artists are represented with many many more; for example artists with over 50 works catalogued are Théodore Chassériau, Jean ...
Musée du Louvre, Louvre Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman , also known as Giovanna degli Albizzi Receiving a Gift of Flowers from Venus ( Italian : Venere e le tre Grazie offrono doni a una giovane ), is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli of circa 1483–1486.
It is signed by the subject's right hand with the artist's maiden name and married names: "Laville Leroulx / f. Benoist" ("f" for "femme", or "wife of"). The composition has similarities to Benoist's 1802 portrait of Madame Philippe Panon Desbassayns de Richemont and her son Eugène, now held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Benoist's signature
The current joined ownership is a new arrangement for the Louvre and Rijksmuseum, and it remains to be seen whether this experiment in international art purchasing will fit into exhibition plans of both institutions. Unlike many expensive paintings, these two will not be restricted by location and it is expected that they will be on tour regularly.
The painting, which dates from 1280, went on to fetch almost 24.2 million euros ($26.8 million) at auction in October 2019, more than four times the pre-sale estimate.
[10] [11] The owner's account, Harry Hahn's The Rape of La Belle (1946) is a classic of populist conspiracy theory applied to the art world. After decades in an Omaha vault, the Hahn La Belle was sold at auction by Sotheby's on January 28, 2010 as "by a follower of Leonardo, probably before 1750"; it brought $1.5 million, a price three times ...
Two paintings and a drawing by Pablo Picasso were originally featured in American artist and museum curator Kirsha Kaechele’s “Ladies Lounge” installation at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and ...