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Painting of the Last Supper with Christ and twelve apostles around a long table set with bread, wine and fish.

Retable de la Déploration du Christ : La Cène

Joos van Cleve, 1520

Two women embrace in an allegorical scene with wheat, flowers, and a basket of fruit, by Vigée Le Brun, 1780.

Peace bringing back Prosperity

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1780

Oil painting of a young woman in blue and yellow reading a letter beside a small open jewelry box and red curtain.

La Liseuse

Jean Raoux, 1750

Painting of shepherds and cattle by a pond in a wooded landscape, with a farmhouse and mountains in the distance.

Southern landscape with shepherds and cattle

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1653

Painting of a regal woman with attendants bearing gifts in a colonnaded hall, arches opening onto a sunlit landscape.

Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Nicolas Vleughels, 1728

Woman in red headscarf leaning on a pitchfork beside smoldering grass in a hazy open field.

La Brûleuse d'herbes

Jean-François Millet, 1859

Half-length portrait of a bearded man in black clothing with a white lace collar, one hand on his chest, against a brown back

Portrait of a 45 year old man

Cornelis de Vos, 1632

Painting of a river bank with a church spire, large trees, a cattle ferry in the foreground and sailing boats under cloudy sk

Bord de rivière avec une église

Salomon van Ruysdael, 1644

Elegant company dines outdoors at a long table under trees, with servants, a carriage, a country house and dogs nearby.

A Hunting Meal

Jean-François de Troy, 1737

Painting of women with water jugs at a well, a man in orange gesturing to a woman in blue, classical buildings behind.

Eliezer and Rebecca

Nicolas Poussin, 1648

Panel painting of a kneeling donor with John the Baptist and a lamb, with a landscape showing a knight fighting a dragon.

The Donor with St John the Baptist

Hans Memling, 1490

Nude woman in red hat and jeweled necklace holding a veil, standing before dark trees with a castle and lake beyond.

Venus in a Landscape

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529

Portrait of a man with grey curly hair holding a painter's palette and brushes, wearing a grey coat with red collar.

Hubert Robert

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1788

Painting of a busy Cairo market street with striped stone walls, veiled women, seated men, and a donkey among textile stalls.

Street Scene near the El Ghouri Mosque in Cairo

John Frederick Lewis, 1876

Gold-ground panel of an angel in a pink robe holding an olive branch, with a gilded halo and speckled wings.

L'Ange de l'Annonciation Angel of the annunciation

Sano di Pietro, 1450

Dutch sailing boats with billowing sails tacking through choppy sea under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Navires hollandais sous la brise

Jan van Os, 1775

Grisaille diptych with two grey sculpted figures in Gothic niches: a bearded man on the left and a woman holding a child on t

Grisaille Diptych

Jan van Eyck, 1450

Candlelit painting of a bearded man in a turban having his hands washed by a servant pouring water from a silver ewer.

Pilate washing his hands in innocence

Matthias Stom, 1600

Oil portrait of a man with hands clasped in prayer, wearing a black fur-trimmed robe, gold chain and red collar, on green.

Portrait of John I, Duke of Cleves

Rogier van der Weyden, 1460

Young painter seated at an easel in a studio, with a fireplace, a hanging palette, and a portrait on the wall.

Jonge schilder in een atelier

Barent Fabritius, 1655

Oil portrait of a seated woman in black with a white ruff collar and cap, hands folded, against a dark background.

Portrait d'une jeune femme assise

Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck, 1650

Oil painting of two men in period dress talking beside a seated woman in a gold gown, with a dog and red drapery.

François Ier, Charles Quint et la duchesse d'Étampes

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1827

Nude men fight with clubs in a rocky wooded clearing while women and infants watch; a castle sits on a hill behind.

The Fruits of Jealousy (The Close of the Silver Age)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1535

Painting of women, nude musicians, and putti gathered outdoors around a keyboard and lute performance under a tree.

Le Concert

Master of Flora, 1550

Seated man in red papal robes and white skullcap in a gilded chair, holding a document, against a dark background.

Portrait of Pope Pius VII

Jacques-Louis David, 1805

Painting of a Venetian campo with a Gothic basilica, equestrian statue, people, and gondolas on a canal.

Campo of Santi Giovanni et Paolo, with the Scuola di San Marco in Venice

Francesco Guardi, 1760

Large painting of a crowded Renaissance banquet with musicians, servants and guests under classical columns and blue sky.

The Wedding at Cana

Paolo Veronese, 1562

Half-length portrait of a young man in dark clothing beside a pale viol against a wall of dark and ochre blocks.

Portrait d'un joueur de viole

Paolo Zacchia the Elder

Gilded panel painting of the Madonna holding the Christ Child, who holds a scroll, against a gold background with haloes.

Madonna and Child

Giovanni di Pietro Falloppi, 1420

Nude woman pouring water from a terracotta jar into a pool, with foliage and irises beside her, against a dark rocky backgrou

The Spring

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1820

Painting of crumbling classical arches and columns with a crowd of figures gathered beneath, a preacher gesturing among them.

Apostle Paul Preaching on the Ruins

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1720

Painting of a man with a whip at a doorway among hunting dogs in a sunlit courtyard, with a hanging hare on a white wall.

Le valet de chiens

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1842

Painting of a seated woman in blue silk by a marble pool, with an older man in red behind her and a colonnaded garden beyond.

Bathsheba at Bath

Paolo Veronese, 1575

Four women in an ornate interior with tiled walls, a hookah and patterned carpets, one standing attendant in a turban.

The Women of Algiers

Eugène Delacroix, 1834

Nativity scene with kneeling Virgin, infant Christ in a manger, winged putti, and figures in red and green in an interior.

Nativity

Aertgen van Leyden, 1525

Half-length portrait of a woman with red feathers in her hair, pearl earrings and pendant, against a dark background.

Hendrickje Stoffels

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1654

Painting of a bare-breasted woman holding the tricolor flag atop a barricade, leading armed men over fallen bodies.

Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix, 1830

Panini's 1729 view of Piazza Navona in Rome, with an obelisk, domed church, fountain and festive crowds under clouds.

Piazza Navona in Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1729

Jan Brueghel the Elder's 1618 forest banquet with mythological guests, cherubs, fruit and musicians around a long table.

The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1618

Fresco of classical women in draped robes presenting gifts to a standing woman in a red gown, with a small child at right.

Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to Giovanna degli Albizzi

Sandro Botticelli, 1483

Painting of Saint John the Baptist, a curly-haired man smiling and pointing upward against a dark background.

Saint John the Baptist

Leonardo da Vinci, 1513

Painting of Saint John the Baptist preaching to a crowd of turbaned men and a soldier in a wooded landscape with a palm tree.

Saint Jean Baptiste prêchant dans le désert

Pier Francesco Mola, 1659

Painting of a young woman with an upturned gaze, seated near wooden crosses and cypress trees under a cloudy sky.

Orphan Girl at the Cemetery

Eugène Delacroix, 1824

Half-length portrait of a seated woman with folded hands and a faint smile, set before a hazy landscape with winding paths an

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci, 1503

Interior of a grand Venetian hall with gilded ceiling, frescoed walls, and guests seated at long banquet tables.

Le doge de Venise offre à déjeuner aux ambassadeurs

Francesco Guardi, 1775

Painting of the Virgin Mary seated in a niche with an angel, dove, and saints and kneeling women on steps below.

Incarnation of Christ

Fra' Bartolomeo, 1515

Canal scene with the Rialto Bridge in the distance, gondolas and sailboats on green water, and historic buildings lining the

The Rialto Bridge

Bernardo Bellotto, 1735

Painting of the Annunciation: an angel offers a lily to the kneeling Virgin Mary beneath golden light and clouds.

Annunciation

Guido Reni, 1629

Painting of a seated nude woman seen from behind, wearing a red and white headscarf, beside a green velvet curtain and white

La Grande baigneuse

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1808

Half-length portrait of a woman with dark curled hair holding a pen, against a dark background.

Portrait of the Artist

Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot, 1825

Painting of the dead Christ lying on the Virgin's lap with mourners, a wooden cross, skull, and landscape behind.

Lamentation Over The Dead Christ

Petrus Christus, 1435

Night harbor scene under a full moon with tall ships, fishermen on a stone quay, and a glowing bonfire by a fortress wall.

Seaport by Moonlight

Joseph Vernet, 1771

Woman in white dress with red sash embraces a young girl in blue dress, both facing the viewer against a dark background.

Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Madame Vigée-Lebrun et sa fille

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 1789

Half-length self-portrait of a man with curly hair in a red cloak and white cravat, holding a palette and brushes.

Self-portrait

Jacques-Louis David, 1794

Two haloed women embrace before a building; an elderly man in a green robe watches from a doorway beside a landscape.

La Visitation

Juan Correa de Vivar, 1530

Painting of the Virgin and Child with three saints, one reading a book, against a blue sky with clouds.

Virgin and Child with Saints Stephen, Jerome and Maurice

Titian, 1510

Painting of the Adoration of the Magi: a kneeling king before the Virgin and Child, with attendants, angels and a city beyond

L'Adoration des Mages

Ulrich Apt the Elder, 1510

Painting of a winged nude figure rising upward toward light, with a serpent and red drapery on rocky ground below.

The Soul Breaking the Links Holding it to the Earth

Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, 1821

Oil painting of Medea on a dragon-drawn chariot with a torch, while Jason in armour looks at two dead children below.

Médée et Jason Jason and Medea

Charles André van Loo, 1750

Painting of a haloed figure bound to a column in a colonnaded courtyard with checkered floor and tormentors pulling ropes.

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Niccolò di Liberatore, 1475

Oval painting of the Eternal Father among cherubs and clouds, with a winged archangel and female figures beside him.

Eternal Father and Archangel Gabriel

Francesco Albani, 1650

Painting of a woman in pink robes gesturing from a platform to a crowd of helmeted soldiers, with a classical city plaza behi

The preaching of Cassandra

Dirck Metius, 1625

Painting of cattle grazing on a hillside with herdsmen, a river valley and a distant town under a cloudy sky.

Vue prise des hauteurs de Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine)

Constant Troyon, 1856

Madonna in red dress and blue mantle holds standing infant Christ before a dark curtain and a landscape with a hilltop town.

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, 1504

About this museum

The Musée du Louvre in Paris opened as a public museum in 1793 in the former royal palace. Its Department of Paintings holds European painting from the thirteenth century to 1848, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt and the great French painters. Artnap holds 1,125 works from the Musée du Louvre (Department of Paintings), 1,125 of them paintings, shown first. The best-represented painters here are Eugène Delacroix, Peter Paul Rubens, Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David. Each artwork page shows the museum's record, the date and the licence statement.

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Can I use these images?

Yes. The works are in the public domain or released by their museums for open use, so you can use them in personal and commercial projects. Each artwork page shows the museum and its licence statement.

Are these all the works at the Musée du Louvre (Department of Paintings)?

No. These are the works that the Musée du Louvre (Department of Paintings) has published as public domain images and that Artnap holds; the museum's own collection is larger.

How large are the images?

Most are about 2,500 pixels on the long side, or the museum's own size when its file is smaller. Artnap Pro members can also download the museum's full-resolution master file where one exists.