A trip to Paris is incomplete without visiting the Eiffel Tower, and having a look at the famous paintings in the Louvre. The upcoming article promises to give you an exhaustive list of the names of the murals you would find in this revered place.
The Louvre is one of the largest palaces in the world and also a national art museum. This national heritage is home to some of the world’s most famous paintings made by some of the illustrious painters, such as Jean Clouet, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and many others.
Brief History
The Louvre (loov’-ruh) was earlier the residence of many French kings and queens. It was built in the 13th century by Phillip II Augustus, and was used as a fort in order to defend Seine river from the Normans and the English. This fort was later changed into a museum, Musée du Louvre, during the late 18th century. It contained some of the former royal sculptures and potraits of the royal family. Today, this museum contains some famous antiquities from ancient Egypt, the Middle Ages, the Greek, and the Roman period. It also includes souvenirs from the modern times.
The List
Name of the Painting | Painter |
The Coronation of the Virgin | Fra Angelico |
Woman in Blue | Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot |
The Battle at Issus | Jan Brueghel |
Portrait of Francis I | Jean Clouet |
Venus Standing in a Landscape | Lucas Cranach |
The Return from Market | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin |
The Fortune Teller | Caravaggio |
Diana Resting after Her Bath | François Boucher |
The Beggars | Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
The Marriage Feast at Cana | Gerard David |
The Oath of the Horatii | Jacques-Louis David |
The Raft of the Medusa | Théodore Géricault |
The Madwoman | Théodore Géricault |
Mounted Officer of the Imperial Guard | Théodore Géricault |
Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon | Enguerrand Quarton |
The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) |
Baldassare Castiglione | Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) |
Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa | Antoine-Jean Gros |
Echo and Narcissus | Nicolas Poussin |
Empress Josephine | Pierre-Paul Prud’Hon |
The Four Evangelists | Jacob Jordaens |
Joseph the Carpenter | Georges de La Tour |
The Boy with the Clubfoot | Jusepe de Ribera |
L’Accordee du Village (The Village Betrothal) | Jean-Baptiste Greuze |
The Flayed Ox | Rembrandt |
Le Moulin de la Galette | Pierre-Auguste Renoir |
Portrait of Louis XIV | Hyacinthe Rigaud |
Henry IV Receiving the Portrait of Marie de Medici | Peter Paul Rubens |
The Bark of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell) | Eugène Delacroix |
The Apotheosis of Henry IV and the Proclamation of the Regency of Marie de Médici | Peter Paul Rubens |
Gabrielle d’Estrées and One of her Sisters | School of Fontainebleau |
The Banker and His Wife | Quentin Matsys |
The Battle of San Romano | Paolo Uccello |
Death of Sardanapalus | Eugène Delacroix |
Man with a Glove | Titian |
Et in Arcadia ego (Even in Arcadia, there am I) | Nicolas Poussin |
Oedipus and the Sphinx | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
Pastoral Symphony (Fete Champetre) | Titian |
Charles I of England | Sir Anthony van Dyck |
The Marriage at Cana | Veronese (Paolo Caliari) |
Supper at Emmaus | Veronese (Paolo Caliari) |
The Lacemaker | Johannes Vermeer |
The Turkish Bath | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
Diana the Huntress | School of Fontainebleau |
La Charette | Louis Le Nain |
Valpinçon Bather | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci |
The Virgin of the Rocks | Leonardo da Vinci |
Portrait of an Old Woman | Hans Memling |
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne | Leonardo da Vinci |
These masterpieces are sure to mesmerize your senses to the extent that you may not feel like going back home!