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Musée du Louvre (Department of Paintings)

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Painting of a sibyl in pink raising her arm to a vision in the clouds while Augustus and Roman soldiers look on.

Auguste et la Sibylle de Tibur

Luca Penni, 1500

Gold-ground panel of a haloed saint kneeling at a post while men beat him, with spearmen and robed onlookers behind.

The Flagellation of Saint George

Bernat Martorell, 1430

Painting of a helmeted warrior speaking to a reclining woman on a terrace with columns, a trident statue, and a seaside city.

Énée racontant à Didon les malheurs de la ville de Troie

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1815

Christ with a cross banner appears on a cloud before the kneeling Virgin Mary against a gold background.

L'Apparition du Christ à la Vierge

Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1490

Painting of women on a riverbank lifting an infant from a basket, with an Egyptian-style architectural backdrop and palm tree

Moses found by Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2:5-6)

Adriaen van der Werff, 1722

Painting of a woman collapsing in a city street while a crowd reacts and robed men on a step gesture toward her.

La Mort de Saphire

Nicolas Poussin, 1652

Gold-ground panel of Christ carrying the cross through a walled city, with soldiers, weeping women and haloed figures.

Orsini-Altar, Szene: Kreuztragung

Simone Martini, 1333

Rubens painting of a richly dressed woman arriving by gilded barge, with sea nymphs and tritons in the waves below.

The Disembarkation at Marseilles

Peter Paul Rubens, 1622

Saint Jerome kneels in prayer beside a lion in a rocky wooded landscape with a castle on a hill.

Saint Jérôme pénitent dans un paysage avec l'épisode du lion qu'il guérit

Simon Bening, 1550

Painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi holding a jeweled globe with a cross and a ship, against a gold background.

Christ as Salvator Mundi

Joos van Cleve, 1512

Oil painting of two musicians, one playing a lute and one holding a tambourine, with a woman in a red headscarf in a dim inte

Musiciens juifs de Mogador

Eugène Delacroix, 1847

Triptych with risen Christ at a tomb center, sleeping soldiers, archers at left and kneeling disciples at right.

Triptych of the Resurrection

Hans Memling, 1490

Gilded panel painting of a standing saint with a palm frond and sword, with two serpents at his feet.

Saint Julien de Rimini ?

Vittore Crivelli, 1492

Baroque painting of a seated woman with an infant, allegorical figures, a sky chariot, and red drapery under a tree.

The Birth of the Dauphin at Fountainebleau

Peter Paul Rubens, 1622

Painting of Christ bound to a column while tormentors in colorful clothing beat him in an arched tiled interior.

Flagellation of Christ

Master L. Cz, 1475

Dark painting of the dead Christ on a white slab, with angels holding a shroud and a woman in red washing at a basin.

De graflegging van Christus

Quentin Varin, 1575

Painting of Venus seated nude on clouds beside Adonis, who holds arrows and embraces her, with white doves in a blue sky.

Vénus et Adonis

Clément-Louis-Marie-Anne Belle, 1772

Oval painting of a dike landscape with a brick house, wooden jetty, horse cart, rowing boat and figures under an overcast sky

Paysage avec charrette sur une digue

Jan van Goyen, 1646

Circular Renaissance painting of the Virgin and Child with infant John the Baptist and two saints before a landscape.

La Vierge, l'Enfant et les saints

Girolamo del Pacchia, 1533

Painted interior of a long ornate gallery with gilded tables, glass display cases, and a richly decorated ceiling.

Intérieur de la galerie d'Apollon au Louvre

Victor Duval, 1874

Painting of cupids among a lush garland of roses, sunflowers and flowers, with a parrot and a sleeping putto.

Cupids and Garlands of Flowers with a Parrot

Carlo Maratta, 1694

Painting of a woman in a white dress and feathered hat seated with two children, one in a dark cap, beside a red chair.

Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673) with Clara-Johanna (1632-1689) and Frans Rubens (1614-1673)

Peter Paul Rubens, 1636

Oil painting of a man in a blue robe studying a celestial globe by a window, with an open book on a draped table.

The Astronomer

Johannes Vermeer, 1668

Dark painting of figures tending a dead body by candlelight, with a bearded man in red holding a cloth and mourning women.

The Deposition

Jacopo Bassano, 1570

Oil painting of a woman with dark hair gazing upward, wrapped in a golden shawl over a red garment.

Étude de tête de femme

Ubaldo Gandolfi, 1780

Gold-ground panel of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, with Mary, Simeon holding the infant, and attendant figures und

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

Guido of Siena, 1270

Oil painting of a wedding feast in an arched hall, with seated guests, servants, musicians, a dog and a cat.

Les Noces de Cana

Leandro Bassano

Panel painting of the Madonna and Child surrounded by six crowned female saints in a garden landscape with angels above.

Madonna and Child with Saints

Hans Memling, 1490

Loose oil sketch of a reclining king on a bed amid nude women, warriors, a gold-harnessed horse, and gold objects.

La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse

Eugène Delacroix, 1826

Oil painting of a seated woman in orange robes carving a name into a tree, with sheep grazing in a wooded landscape.

Herminie grave sur un arbre le nom de Tancrède

Pier Francesco Mola, 1660

Painting of a young artist in a red cloak among Renaissance-dressed figures in an arched courtyard, beside a woman holding a

Raphael at the Vatican

Horace Vernet, 1832

Painting of Venus reclining nude on red cushion, Adonis in golden armour with spear, and cupids in a wooded landscape.

Venus and Adonis

Francesco Albani, 1630

Half-length portrait of a man in a dark military coat with red epaulettes, wind-blown hair, and a smoky battle backdrop.

Bonaparte au pont d'Arcole

Antoine-Jean Gros, 1796

Painting of a vaulted gallery with framed artworks, sculptures, skylights and visitors sketching and strolling.

Projet d'aménagement de la Grande Galerie du Louvre, vers 1796

Hubert Robert, 1796

Harbor scene with masted ships, quayside figures in period dress, and a walled town with a tower under a cloudy sky.

Dieppe Harbor

Joseph Vernet, 1753

Painting of a seated woman in silver silk gown gesturing to a standing man in a red coat with a cane, in an elegant interior.

Portrait du marquis de Marigny et de sa femme, née Marie-Françoise Constance Julie Filleul

Louis-Michel van Loo, 1769

Young shepherd with bare chest holds a lamb up beside his face, seated against a dark background with a wooden staff.

Saint Jean-Baptiste tenant un mouton

Bartolomeo Manfredi

Painting of the Nativity with Mary holding the infant Christ, shepherds kneeling, an ox, and angels in clouds above.

Adoration of the Shepherds (1688)

Luca Giordano, 1688

Kneeling man in white robe looks up at a woman holding a scroll reading HIC TE MAIOR ES, classical courtyard behind.

Auguste et la Sibylle de Tibur

Jean Cousin, 1530

Painting of a seated Virgin in pink and blue with an infant, an older bearded man resting at left, under trees and hills.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Simone Cantarini, 1625

Painting of a sunlit town square with brick gabled houses, trees, a church with twin spires, and small figures.

Xanthen, square with the church of St. Victor in the background

Adriaen van de Velde, 1675

Seated woman in white gown receives a gold scepter from a young man in blue fleur-de-lis robe, watched by courtiers.

Saint Louis Handing Over the Regency to His Mother

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1773

Oil painting of a woman led by armored men past attendants, a flying cupid, dogs and ships on a blue sea.

The Rape of Helen

Guido Reni, 1631

Bust portrait of a young girl in a black dress with a pearl-edged white collar against a dark background.

Portrait de l'Infante Marguerite en buste (anciennement Marie-Anne d'Autriche)

Diego Velázquez, 1660

Painting of a stone staircase seen through a dark archway, rising toward a bright cloudy sky with trees and small figures.

À la villa Farnèse: l'escalier; dit aussi: villa Farnese-intérieur

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1775

Painting of Pan teaching music, with a satyr piping, putti, reclining figures, a classical statue and a dancing nymph in a la

La Leçon de musique de Pan

Giulio Carpioni, 1660

Oil painting of two men in greatcoats and a woman in a white gown examining a print against a dark background.

Les amateurs d'estampes

Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1800

Two armored knights on horseback clash in a stormy countryside, one on a white horse with a sword, one on a brown horse with

Confrontation of knights in the countryside

Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Oil painting of a rider on a white horse gesturing to a woman holding a tambourine, with soldiers and onlookers nearby.

La Fille de Jephté

Giuseppe Bazzani

Painting of an angel with blue wings holding an olive branch against a gold background.

Angel with an Olive Branch

Hans Memling, 1475

Painting of a young woman tracing a shadow on a wall beside a seated young man, a dog, and classical columns.

The Origin of Painting

Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1786

Standing friar in brown habit holding a red book and flame before a gold background, in a Gothic frame.

St. Anthony of Padua

Painting of a chained, bearded prisoner reaching toward light in a dark stone dungeon beside a sleeping man.

The Prisoner of Chillon

Eugène Delacroix, 1834

Oil portrait of a young woman in white headdress and dark gown reading a small book against a red background.

Young Woman in Orison Reading a Book of Hours

Ambrosius Benson, 1532

Virgin in red and blue robes gazes upward, holding the nude infant Jesus on a white cloth against a dark background.

La Vierge et l'Enfant Jésus

Giovanni Do, 1630

Painting of the Circumcision of Christ with the infant on an altar, a robed priest, the Virgin, Joseph, and attendants under

Circumcision of Christ

Painting of a woman in a pink gown and a man in a red coat talking on a bench in a park with a classical rotunda.

Conversation in a Park

Thomas Gainsborough, 1746

Still life painting of grapes, pomegranate, apples, melon, chestnuts and medlars on a ledge, with a small bird among the frui

Nature morte aux nèfles

Luca Forte, 1650

Oil painting of fishermen working on a river with a boat, nets and hanging fish under a stormy sky, with a distant village.

Fishing

Annibale Carracci, 1585

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a white dress and blue drape, with a veil and a small fire beside her.

Portrait de Mme Henriette en Vestale, dit autrefois à tort Portrait de Mme Dupin

Jean-Marc Nattier, 1750

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel offers a white lily to the kneeling Virgin Mary, with cherubs and a dove above.

L’Annonciation

Eustache Le Sueur, 1625

Oil painting of two mounted riders, a groom in green, dogs and shepherds with sheep in a hazy landscape.

The Departure for the Horse Ride

Aelbert Cuyp, 1665

Gilded panel painting of a bishop saint with a jeweled mitre, holding a crozier, against a gold leaf background.

St. Louis of Toulouse

Antonio Vivarini, 1450

Oil self-portrait of a young man in a black coat beside a painter's palette, hand resting on a book over red cloth.

Self-portrait

Théodore Chassériau, 1835