Topic - Le Louvre



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x Venus de Milo

Aphrodite of Milos (Greek: Αφροδίτη της Μήλου, Aphroditē tēs Mēlou), better known as the Venus de Milo, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. Created at some time between 130 and 100 BCE, it is...

x Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda) is a 16th century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance. The work is owned by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France...

x Winged Victory of Samothrace

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a third century B.C. marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated...

x Liberty Leading the People

Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple) is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled Charles X. A woman personifying Liberty leads the people forward over the bodies of the...

x The Virgin and Child with St. Anne

The Virgin and Child with St Anne is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolising his Passion whilst the Virgin tries to...

x Oath of the Horatii

Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces), is a painting by Jacques-Louis David accomplished in 1784, before the French Revolution, which depicts the Roman salute. It grew to be considered as paradigm of neoclassical art. The painting...

x Death of Sardanapalus

Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) oil on canvas, dated 1827 by Eugène Delacroix, 392 x 496 cm or 12′ 1" x 16′ 3". It currently hangs in the Musee du Louvre, Paris. Its dominant feature is the bed on which a nude prostrates herself and...

x The Wedding at Cana

The Wedding at Cana (or The Wedding Feast at Cana) is a massive painting by the late-Renaissance or Mannerist Italian painter, Paolo Veronese. It is on display in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting depicts the wedding feast at Cana, a...

x The Astronomer

The Astronomer is a painting finished about 1668 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is oil on canvas, 51cm x 45 cm, and is on display at the Louvre, Paris. Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th century Dutch painting and...

x Massacre at Chios

"Massacre at Chios" (1824) is a painting by French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix.

x The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople

"The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople" (1840) is a painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix.

x Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

Antonio Canova's statue Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, first commissioned in 1787, exemplifies the Neoclassical obsession with love and emotion. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, immediately after awakening the...

x The Raft of the Medusa

The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was just 27, the work has become an icon of French...

x The Bridge at Narni

The Bridge at Narni (in French: Le pont de Narni) is an 1826 painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is currently on display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The painting is a product of one of Corot's youthful sojourns...

x Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Victims of Jaffa

Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa (Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa) is an 1804 painting commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte from Antoine-Jean Gros to portray an event during the Egyptian Campaign. The scene shows Napoleon...

x The Rape of the Sabines

"The Rape of the Sabines" (c. 1637-1638) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.

x The Lacemaker

"The Lacemaker" (1668-1669) is a painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer.

x The Dropsical Woman

"The Dropsical Woman" (1663) is painting by Dutch artist Gerard Dou.

x Hercules and Omphale

"Hercules and Omphale" (1724) is a painting by French artist François Lemoyne.

x Virgin and Child

x Nymph with Scorpion

x The Punished Son

"The Punished Son" (1778) is a painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

x The Church of Marissel near Beauvais

"The Church of Marissel near Beauvais" (1866) is a painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.

x Wounded Niobid

"Wounded Niobid" (1822) is a sculpture by Swiss-born French artist James Pradier.

x Landscape with Diogenes

"Landscape with Diogenes" (1647) is a painting by French artist Nicolas Poussin.

x Self-Portrait

"Self-Portrait" is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.

x Medea (Louvre)

Medea is a painting created by Eugene Delacroix in 1862.

x Léon Riesener

"Léon Riesener" (1835) is a painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.

x Hermaphroditus Asleep

"Hermaphroditus Asleep" is a marble sculpture of a sleeping Hermaphroditus. It is a Roman copy from the Imperial Era (2nd century CE) after a Greek original. The mattress (Carrara marble) was sculpted in 1619 by Bernini, commissioned by...

x Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 – October 13, 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement...

x Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His intensely emotional realism and dramatic use of lighting had a formative influence on the...

x Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in...

x Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo...

x Johannes Vermeer

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life....

x Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together...

x Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch (English pronunciation: /ˌhaɪəˈrɒnəməs bɒʃ/, Dutch: [ɦieːˈɾoːniməs ˈbɔs]; born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken [jəˈrun ɑnˈtoːnɪsoːn vɑn ˈaːkə(n)]; c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and...

x Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃ːɡʁ]) (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David...

x Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (15 June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was a French painter in the classical style. His work predominantly features clarity, logic, and order, and favors line over color. Until the 20th century he remained the dominant inspiration for...

x Donatello

Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; c. 1386 – December 13, 1466) was a famous early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in basso rilievo, a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in...

x Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the...

x James Pradier

James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier (1790 - June 4, 1852) was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style. Born in Geneva, Pradier left for Paris in 1807 to work with his elder brother, an engraver....

x Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 17, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in...

x Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese (1528 – April 19, 1588) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. He adopted the name Paolo Cagliari or Paolo Caliari, and became known as...

x Théodore Géricault

Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824) was a profoundly influential French artist, painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he became one of the pioneers of the...

x Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter. He was born at Tournus, Saône-et-Loire. He is generally said to have formed his own talent; this is, however, true only in the most limited sense, for at an early age his...

x Philippe de Champaigne

Philippe de Champaigne (26 May 1602 – 12 August 1674) was a Flemish Baroque era painter of the French school. Born in Brussels of a poor family, Champaigne was a pupil of the landscape painter Jacques Fouquières. In 1621 he moved to Paris, where he...

x Gerard Dou

Gerard Dou, also known as Gerrit and Douw or Dow (April 7, 1613–February 9, 1675), was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly-polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his...

x Antoine-Jean Gros

Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835), also known as Jean-Antoine Gros, was a French neoclassical painter. Born in Paris, Gros began to learn to draw at the age of six from his father, who was a miniature painter, and showed himself...

x Pisanello

Pisanello (c. 1395 – probably 1455), known professionally as Antonio di Puccio Pisano or Antonio di Puccio da Cereto, also erroneously called Vittore Pisano by Giorgio Vasari, was one of the most distinguished painters of the early Italian...

x Hippolyte Delaroche

Hippolyte Delaroche (17 July 1797 – 4 November 1856), commonly known as Paul Delaroche, was a French painter born in Paris. Delaroche was born into a wealthy family and was trained by Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, who then painted life-size histories...

x Lorenzo Bartolini

Lorenzo Bartolini (7 January 1777 – 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather...

x Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. His...

x François Lemoyne

François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo painter. He was born in Paris. In 1701, when he was 13 years old, he entered the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. He studied under Louis Galloche and stayed until...

x Mantegna

The Musée du Louvre presents an important retrospective exhibition of the work of Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), the main representative of Renaissance ideas in northern Italy.

x Marie d’Orléans 1813–39