Musée du Louvre

**Louvre Museum**
	art and archeology museum in Paris, France
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Instance of	art museum; archaeological museum;
Main subject	art; antiquities;
Named after	Louvre Palace;
Location	Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre, Paris, Grand Paris, France
Located in or next to body of water	Seine;
Located on street	rue de Rivoli;
Architect	Pierre Lescot; Claude Perrault; Charles Le Brun; I. M. Pei;
Owned by	Ministry of Culture of France;
Operator	Service of the Museums of France;
Has part(s)	Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre (1881–); Department of Islamic Arts of the Louvre (2003–); Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre (1826–); Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre; Department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre; Department of Decorative Arts of the Louvre; Department of Paintings of the Louvre; Department of Sculptures of the Louvre (1893–); Louvre Conservation Center (2021–); Louvre-Lens; departement of the Byzantine Arts and the Eastern Christians in the Louvre Museum;
Founded by	Napoleon;
Inception	10 August 1793;
Date of official opening	10 August 1793;
Significant event	restitution of Nazi-looted art; claim for restitution of an artwork; criminal investigation (2018–);
Elevation above sea level	44 m;
Visitors per year	2,825,000 (2021);
Sponsor	Stephen A. Schwarzman;
Different from	Louvre Palace;
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	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
Authority file
	Q19675; ISNI: 000000012260177X; VIAF ID: 257711507; GND ID: 1006837-5; Library of Congress authority ID: n80020283; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11865019j; IdRef ID: 026394677; NDL Authority ID: 00629424; Libraries Australia ID: 35912436; NL CR AUえーゆーT ID: ko2003204754, ko2003204755; SELIBR ID: 123719; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000096867; National Library of Spain ID: XX125696; NORAF ID: 90322400; NUKAT ID: n97700249; National Library of Korea ID: KAB201902143; Libris-URI: fcrtrjdz1nzsgcx; PLWABN ID: 9810669944905606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007265752405171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA01705974; SBN author ID: CFIV060439; Open Library ID: OL3141048A; Union List of Artist Names ID: 500125189; Itaú Cultural ID: instituicao201204/musee-du-louvre-paris-franca; IMDb ID: co0630841; Museofile ID: M5031; Structurae structure ID: 10000041; OpenStreetMap relation ID: 7515426; Mapy.cz ID: osm&id=148568465
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Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

*map of Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre (and Metro station) (2008)*

Overview

Aerial view of the Palais du Louvre (Louvre Palace)
History: The castle, before the palace and the museum –

Pavilions of Palais du Louvre

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Hall Napoléon

Hall Napoléon (Sully, lower ground floor).
Hall Napoléon (Sully, lower ground floor).

History of the Louvre and the medieval Louvre

Crypte Sully (Sully, lower ground floor, room 4).
Vestiges des fossés du Louvre (Sully, lower ground floor, room 5).

Egyptian antiquities

Crypt of the sphinx (Sully, lower ground floor, room 1
renumérotée → 338).
Le parvis du temple (Sully, ground floor, room 11
renumérotée → 327-328).
The temple (Sully, ground floor, room 12
renumérotée → 324).
The temple (Sully, ground floor, room 12
renumérotée → 324).
Les chapelles (Sully, ground floor, room 12 bis
renumérotée → 325)
Sarcophagus of Ramesses III (Sully, ground floor, room 13
renumérotée → 323).
Animals and gods (Sully, ground floor, room 19).
The Middle Kingdom (Sully, 1^st floor, room 23
renumérotée → 636).

Near Eastern antiquities

room B (Levant: coastal Syria, Ugarit, and Byblos)

Greek antiquities

room 7 (Vénus de Milo)
room 17 (Salle des Caryatides)
room 17 (Salle des Caryatides)
Denon, ground floor, room 31 (Cour du Sphinx).
Galerie Campana IV (Sully, 1^st floor, room 43).

Etruscan antiquities

room 19 (Canthare janiforme)

Mona Lisa room,
Denon, 1st floor
→ (photo).

Italian painting

Mona Lisa room
(Denon, 1^st floor,
room 6).
Mona Lisa room
(Denon, 1^st floor,
room 6).
Jacopo Bellini, The Madonna of Humility Adored by a Prince of the House of Este, 1425 – 1450
Giovanni Bellini,
Portrait of a Man
, 1475-1500
Bernardo Bellotto, Entrance to the Grand Canal and the Church of La Salute, 1725-1750, oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
.
Giambattista Pittoni, Mars et Vénus
Suzanne et les vieillards, Giambattista Pittoni
Bacchus et Ariane, Louvre Museum, Paris
Polyxène devant le tombeau d'Achille, Giambattista Pittoni
La Continence de Scipion, Giambattista Pittoni
Le Christ donnant les clefs du Paradis à saint Pierre, Giambattista Pittoni
Luca Signorelli Adoration of the Magi, 1475-1500

Grande Galerie

Grande Galerie (Denon, 1^st floor,
room 5, 8 and 12).
Grande Galerie (Denon, 1^st floor, room 5, 8 and 12).

Salon Carré

Salon Carré (Denon, 1^st floor, room 3)
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna and Child with the Young St. John the Baptist, 1450-1475

French painting

Le Brun (Sully, 2^nd floor, room 32).
Chardin (Sully, 2^nd floor, room 39).
The painters of Louis XIV (Sully, 2^nd floor, room 34).
Daru (Denon, 1^st floor, room 75).

Northern schools

Galerie Médicis (Richelieu, 2^nd floor, room 18.
Holland, 17th century (Richelieu, 2^nd floor, room 32).
Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle

1493. oil on parchment mounted on canvas. 56.5 × 44.5 cm (22.2 × 17.5 in)

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Contents

Musée du Louvre

Hall Napoléon

History of the Louvre and the medieval Louvre

Egyptian antiquities

Near Eastern antiquities

Greek antiquities

Etruscan antiquities

Italian painting

Grande Galerie

Salon Carré

French painting

Northern schools

Decorative arts

Gallery of Apollo

Napoleon III apartments

Denon

Other

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By inventory number

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