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Musée du Louvre (Department of Paintings)

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Painting of shipwreck survivors on a crowded raft in a stormy sea, some waving cloth toward the horizon.

The Raft of the Medusa

Théodore Géricault, 1819

Painting of a nude woman beside a sea monster as a winged armored rider descends, with a harbor town behind.

Perseus Releases Andromeda

Joachim Wtewael, 1611

Nude woman seated on a bench with cherubs, a satyr at right, and a cat at lower left, against a green curtain.

Jupiter and Antiope

Vincent Sellaer, 1525

Domed ceiling fresco with mythological figures, cherubs and flower garlands around a central painted sky opening.

Venus and Adonis

Antoine François Callet, 1774

Painting of nymphs dancing in a grassy clearing beneath large trees, with soft light and a distant horizon.

A Morning. The dance of the Nymphs

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1850

Painting of a nude woman with crescent moon descending toward a sleeping nude youth, with a cupid and blue drapery.

Diana and Endymion

Jérôme-Martin Langlois, 1822

Painting of Adonis led by cupids toward a reclining Venus in a wooded river landscape with flying putti.

Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus

Francesco Albani, 1621

Reclining nude woman with a skull and silver ewer, a red urn and distant city behind her, under the inscription EVA PRIMA PAN

Eva Prima Pandora

Jean Cousin, 1550

Painting of winged Cupid kissing the forehead of seated Psyche in a hilly landscape, with a butterfly in the sky.

Cupid and Psyche

François Gérard, 1798

Painting of three nude women with gold necklaces, the central one wearing a red feathered hat, against a black background.

The Three Graces

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1531

Diana descends from clouds toward the reclining Endymion, with a greyhound and cupid above, in an octagonal painting.

Diane et Endymion

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1720

Painting of Hercules and Omphale with a nude Omphale leaning toward a seated Hercules holding a distaff, with a cupid and red

Hercules and Omphale

François Lemoyne, 1724

Ceiling painting of Jupiter enthroned above clouds, offering fire to a chained figure as Minerva and female figures look on.

Vesuvius receives from Jupiter the fire that must consume Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabies

François Joseph Heim, 2012

Two helmeted warriors reach toward a bearded half-naked man in a rocky cave, with a ship and arrows in view.

Ulysses and Neoptolemos deprive Philoctète bow and arrows of Hercules

François-Xavier Fabre, 1800

Painting of a reclining youth beside a winged cupid with a torch, and a woman leaning on a rock under trees.

Echo and Narcissus

Nicolas Poussin, 1629

Classical interior with a seated woman in blue, a kneeling vendor with cherubs in a basket, and a standing attendant.

The Cupid Seller

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1763

Oil painting of Minerva guiding a winged nude youth upward toward light and clouds, with cherubs below.

Minerva Leading the Genius of the Arts to Immortality

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1800

Painting of Venus and Adonis: a reclining man in red drapery, a winged child, and a draped goddess above in clouds.

Venus and Adonis

Charles André van Loo, 1750

Oval painting of a winged goddess descending to a helmeted warrior, with a river god, nymph, swan and cherub below.

Iris Sent to Turnus by Juno

Claudio Francesco Beaumont, 1738

Painting of a centaur carrying a struggling woman in pink drapery past a reclining river god and an archer.

The Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus

Louis Jean François Lagrenée, 1755

Minerva in a helmet gestures toward a marble statue as sculptors and a crowd watch in a colonnaded classical setting.

Minerva teaches the art of sculpture to the people of Rhodes

René-Antoine Houasse, 1688