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29 Paintings You Can Visit Only at the Louvre
  • Introduction
  • Portrait of a Woman (3rd century)
  • Summer (1573)
  • Fishing (c. 1588)
  • Raising of Lazarus (c. 1619)
  • St. Joseph the Carpenter (1635–40)
  • The Clubfoot (1642)
  • View of an Interior (The Slippers) (1654–62)
  • The Pilgrimage to Cythera (1717)
  • Pierrot (formerly known as Gilles) (c. 1718–19)
  • Still Life with Bottle of Olives (1760)
  • The Bolt (c. 1777)
  • Oath of the Horatii (1784)
  • Madame Récamier (1800)
  • The Bather (The Valpinçon Bather) (1808)
  • The Raft of the Medusa (1819)
  • The Death of Sardanapalus (1827)
  • Homer Deified (The Apotheosis of Homer) (1827)
  • Liberty Leading the People (1830)
  • View of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre (1841)
  • Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864)
  • The Flagellation of Christ (1455–60)
  • Old Man with a Young Boy (c. 1490)
  • The Fortune Teller (c. 1508–10)
  • Triumph of Titus and Vespasia (c. 1537)
  • The Virgin and Child with St. Anne (c. 1510)
  • Condottiero (1475)
  • Mona Lisa (c. 1503–09)
  • Charity (1518–19)
  • The Decapitation of St. George (c. 1432–34)
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Louvre Museum Georges de La Tour: St. Joseph the Carpenter Painting The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault shows a group of desperate shipwreck survivors crowded on a makeshift raft, some signaling for help, surrounded by turbulent sea. Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People Camille Corot: Souvenir de Mortefontaine Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, oil painting showing a woman with a slight smile and folded hands, seated before a distant, hazy landscape.

29 Paintings You Can Visit Only at the Louvre: References & Edit History

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