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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.
Clíodhna Doherty, an abstract figurative artist, will showcase her art piece Laura in the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris. The piece will be displayed as part of a fair over the weekend.
The Musée du Louvre owns 615,797 objects [1] of which 482,943 are accessible online since 24 March 2021 [82] and displays 35,000 works of art in eight curatorial departments. [2] The Louvre is home to one of the world's most extensive collections of art, including works from diverse cultures and time periods.
When The Two Sisters was exhibited in the Salon of 1843, the response of the critics and the public was mixed. One critic, Louis Peisse, wrote: M. Chassériau wanted, perhaps unnecessarily, to undertake a difficult thing, to do a painting with two figures of women, both full length, of the same height, both in dresses of the same color and the same fabric, with the same shawl, posed in the ...
The Louvre, Paris. The portrait of Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière was painted in 1806 [1] by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and today hangs in the Louvre. It is the third of three portraits of the Rivière family that the artist painted that year.
The Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle is an ivory sculpture probably created in the 1260s, currently in the possession of the Louvre Museum in Paris.The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", [1] and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and ...
Her works often focus on important women from history, as shown in her most famous work, “The Dinner Party,” which represents 39 significant figures in the history of women artists (The ...