Louvre Palace & Museum, Paris Photos

The Louvre Museum is housed in the Louvre Palace which encompasses structures dating from Medieval times to the Pyramids of I.M. Pei of 1988-93. The Louvre comprises one of the most extensive collections of European & Middle Eastern paintings and decorative arts in the world ranging from ancient to 19th Century.

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Louvre Palace Colonnade east wing of Louvre Palace built under Louis XIV. Paris, France Louvre Pyramid. Paris, France View out from glass pyramid at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - French Paintings Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix at the Louvre Museum. Paris, France Madame Récamier painting by Jacques-Louis David at Louvre Museum. Paris, France La Grande Odalisque painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - European Art Mona Lisa painting by Leonardo da Vinci at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Self-portrait in toque & gold chain by Rembrandt at Louvre Museum. Paris, France The Lace Maker painting by Jan Vermeer at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - Rubens Marie de' Medici paintings Marie de' Medici Cycle paintings by Peter Paul Rubens at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Detail of 6. Disembarkation at Marseilles from Marie de' Medici Cycle by Peter Paul Rubens at Louvre Museum. Paris, France 9. Consignment of the Regency from Marie de' Medici Cycle by Peter Paul Rubens at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - Decorative Arts Collection Ivory sleeping infant crowned with laurel wreath leaning on skull & hourglass symbolic of Vanity from Germany at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Copper griffon aquamanile from Nuremberg at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Colored glass bottle from France? at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - Furniture Collection Expanding mechanical desk by Giovanni Socci & Sons of Florence at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Bassinet of duc de Bordeaux by Félix Rémond at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Trompe-l'oeil wall mural in small dining room from apartments of Napoleon III at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - Persian & Babylonian Collection Cuneiform tablet concerning sale of a field & house at the Louvre Museum. Paris, France Capital in form of two bulls for supporting ceiling beams of Persian palace of Darius I at Suse at the Louvre Museum. Paris, France Detail of archers block mural from Suse at the Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - Ancient Egypt Granite sphinx from Tanis inscribed with names of king Amenemhat II (1898-1866 BCE, Merenptah & Shoshenq I at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Painted shroud with facial portrait from Touna el-Gebel, Egypt at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Funerary portrait of young woman from Memphis, Egypt at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - Ancient Greek Art Three Cycladian marble female statuettes at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Greek terracotta Kantharos depicting satyr head from Miletus at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Winged Victory of Samothrace at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
Louvre Museum - Roman Art Seated Apollo wall fresco from Pompeii estate of Julia Felix at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Details of treasure of Boscoreale Roman silver vessels buried by eruption of Mount Vesuvius found 1895 at Louvre Museum. Paris, France Roman portrait busts at Louvre Museum. Paris, France
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