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Musée du Louvre (Department of Paintings)

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Oil painting of the Virgin Mary presenting the infant Jesus to a high priest at a temple with columns and onlookers.

Presentation of Jesus Christ at the Temple

Luca Giordano, 1670

Gilded altarpiece panel of a bishop saint in pink robes and dark cape holding a crozier, book and gold balls.

Saint Nicolas

Antonio Aleotti, 1498

Painting of the dead Christ surrounded by mourners, with a skull, a basin, and a walled town in the background.

Retable de la Déploration du Christ : La Déploration

Joos van Cleve, 1520

Large painting of Venus on clouds with Vulcan beside armor, surrounded by cupids and doves in a blue sky.

Vulcan Presenting Venus with Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1757

Classical landscape with figures by a river, a lyre player, a fortified city with a bridge, and dark clouds above.

Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice

Nicolas Poussin, 1650

Painting of an elderly bearded man offering grapes at a classical arched doorway to seated figures at a laden table.

Abraham and the Three Angels

Gerard de Lairesse, 1675

Gothic triptych with a Nativity scene in the centre, a kneeling figure, angels and two standing saints on gold grounds.

Saint Vittorino (?) (au-dessus : l'Ange de l'Annonciation)

Giovanni di Paolo, 1470

Painting of Bacchus in a chariot with panthers, satyrs, and a reclining woman holding grapes in a pastoral landscape.

Le Triomphe de Bacchus

Charles-Joseph Natoire, 1747

Painting of Christ crucified between two thieves on a hill, with mourners below and a light beam breaking through a dark sky.

The Last Sigh of Christ

Julien-Michel Gué, 2017

Painting of Vulcan holding a sword below Venus seated on clouds with a cherub, swans and armor nearby.

Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aeneas

François Boucher, 1732

Monks in brown habits aid a woman and child on a snowy ledge as an avalanche sweeps down a mountain behind them.

Religieux de l'hospice du mont Saint Gothard

Louis Hersent, 1820

Painting of a kneeling bearded saint in brown habit with halo, hand on a skull, before a crucifix in a rocky landscape.

Saint François d'Assise en oraison devant un crucifix

Francesco Albani

Painting of the dead Christ supported by mourners beside a tall wooden cross, with a town and hills in the background.

The Lamentation over the dead Christ

Dieric Bouts, 1425

Gold-ground Nativity panel with the Virgin reclining, the Christ Child in a manger, angels above and attendants below.

Nativity

Guido of Siena, 1270

Painting of Saint Ambrose as a bishop holding a book and crozier before a gold background and Gothic railing.

Saint Ambrose

Master of Burgo de Osma, 1450

Painting of two saints on gold ground: John the Baptist pointing to a scroll, and a bishop in a jeweled mitre holding a crozi

Saint Jean Baptiste et saint Louis de Toulouse

Bartolomeo Vivarini, 1463

Gold-ground panel of the Crucifixion with a kneeling saint at the cross base, grieving women left, and crowded figures right.

La Crucifixion avec saint François agenouillé portant les stigmates

Taddeo di Bartolo, 1400

Painting of Minerva enthroned on clouds above women and cupids gathered among books and art tools.

Minerva and the Arts

Nicolas Pierre Loir, 1666

Painting of a bare-chested preacher with a staff gesturing to a crowd and seated mothers with infants under large trees.

Predication of Saint John the Baptist

Francesco Albani, 1630

Painting of Christ carrying the cross through a crowd of soldiers, with a walled city and mountains behind.

Christ Carrying the Cross

Master of the Repudiation of Hagar, 1510

Landscape painting with a waterfall, a pool, and women with hunting dogs in a wooded scene by Paul Bril, 1615.

Landscape with Diana Discovering the Pregnancy of Callisto

Paul Bril, 1615

Painted Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, grieving figures below, mounted soldiers and a hilly landscape wit

Crucifixion

Niccolò di Liberatore, 1487

Gilded panel painting of Saint John the Evangelist seated in a red robe with a halo, against a gold background.

Saint Jean l'Evangéliste

Pere Lembrí, 1400

Painting of the Virgin Mary in red and blue holding a child with a halo, against a rocky landscape with a hilltop building.

Madonna and Child

Sandro Botticelli, 1460

Gold-ground panel of the Madonna and Child enthroned, flanked by six winged angels in blue, pink and gold robes.

The Madonna and Child in Majesty Surrounded by Angels

Painting of two haloed saints, a bishop with a crozier and a bearded man with a staff and book, on gold ground.

Saint Pétrone et saint Jacques

Antonio Vivarini, 1463

Reclining nude woman sleeps as a satyr approaches, with a cupid in a tree, hunters and dogs in a wooded landscape.

Jupiter and Antiope

Titian, 1551

Painting of Christ with a halo on a rock, raising his hand as a winged, nude tempter reaches toward him against a blue sky.

La tentation du Christ

Ary Scheffer, 1850

Tintoretto painting of the Virgin and Child with four saints, including a bishop, a palm-bearing saint, and John the Baptist

Virgin and Child, with Saint Catherine, Saint Augustin, Saint Marc and Saint John the Baptist

Jacopo Tintoretto, 1549

Circular painting of an embracing couple with a leafy garland, the woman in a pink gown and pearls, the man in blue, before d

Mythological Couple

Paris Bordone, 1540